A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of BostonLittle, Brown, 1853 - 270 páginas |
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Página 224 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Página 164 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Página 70 - Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose ; " ' But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning gate, And walked in paradise.
Página 16 - Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.
Página 258 - All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and tenderly...
Página 16 - LORD I BELIEVE, HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF.' PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT, ESPECIALLY THAT DRAWN FROM THE VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERSE, IN COMPARISON WITH THE APPARENT INSIGNIFICANCE OF THIS GLOBE HAS SOMETIMES SHAKEN MY REASON FOR THE FAITH WHICH IS IN ME; BUT MY HEART HAS ALWAYS ASSURED AND REASSURED ME THAT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST MUST BE A DIVINE REALITY. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT CANNOT BE A MERE HUMAN PRODUCTION. THIS BELIEF ENTERS INTO THE VERY DEPTH OF MY CONSCIENCE. THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MAN PROVES IT.
Página 58 - And can not cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above desire and fear ; No more submitted to the change and chance Of the unsteady planets. 0 'tis well With him ! but who knows what the coming hour Veil'd in thick darkness brings for us ! Coun.
Página 204 - Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty, its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with thy spirit!
Página 93 - ... the offices of legislation and diplomacy; of preserving the peace, keeping the honor, establishing the boundaries, and vindicating the neutral rights of his country; restoring a sound currency, and laying its foundation sure and deep; in upholding public credit; in promoting foreign commerce and domestic industry ; in developing our uncounted material resources; giving the lake and the river to trade; and vindicating and interpreting the Constitution and the Law. On all these subjects; on all...
Página 91 - American statesman ; that, for thirty-three years, and those embracing his most Herculean works at the bar, he was engaged as a member of either House, or in the highest of the executive departments, in the conduct of the largest national affairs, in the treatment of the largest national questions, in debate with the highest abilities of American public life, conducting diplomatic intercourse in delicate relations with all manner of foreign powers, investigating whole classes of truths, totally unlike...