Life of Daniel Webster, Volumen 2D. Appleton, 1870 |
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Página 696 - but with the feeling of one to whom every creature of God is dear. After having pointed out, at some length, the characteristics of the different breeds, he checked himself with a smile, and said, ' How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough and that glorieth in the goad that driveth oxen, and is occupied
Página 21 - Yankee Englishman; such limbs we make in Yankee-land!' As a logic-fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion; that amorphous craglike face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be
Página 359 - painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust ? " There Is, said Michael, If thou well observe The rule of' not too much,' by temperance taught, In what thou cat'st and
Página 694 - I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitcfully use you
Página 423 - mildews, war, pestilence, and famine, than to hear gentlemen talk of secession. To break up this great Government! to dismember this glorious country ! to astonish Europe with an act of folly such as Europe for two centuries has never beheld in any government or any people! No, sir! no, sir
Página 479 - may befall a great country in a crisis like this, and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country's fate? Let the consequences be what they will, I am careless. No man can suffer too much and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he
Página 423 - of the slave States? Shall the man from the Yellowstone and the Platte be connected, in the new republic, with the man who lives on the southern extremity of the Cape of Florida? Sir, I am ashamed to pursue this line of remark. I dislike it, I have an utter disgust for it. I would
Página 451 - form still erect, with a voice by no means indicating such a degree of physical weakness as did in fact possess him, with clear tones, and an impressive, and, I may say, an imposing manner—who did not feel that he might imagine that we saw before us a senator of Rome, when Rome survived.
Página 681 - The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the several communications of Mr. Osma, charge d'affaires of Peru, of the 25th June,