The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, المجلد 1

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Little, Brown and Company, 1856
 

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الصفحة 39 - God hath exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance and remission of sins...
الصفحة 374 - The staff, on which my years should lean, Is broken, ere those years come o'er me ; My funeral rites thou shouldst have seen, But thou art in the tomb before me. Thou rear'st to me no filial stone, No parent's grave with tears beholdest; Thou art my ancestor, my son! And stand'st in Heaven's account the oldest. On earth my lot was soonest cast, Thy generation after mine, Thou hast thy predecessor past ; Earlier eternity is thine.
الصفحة 299 - Our triumph in the college cause has been complete. Five judges, only six attending, concur not only in a decision in our favor, but in placing it upon principles broad and deep, and which secure corporations of this description from legislative despotism and party violence for the future. The Court goes all lengths with us, and whatever trouble these gentlemen may give us in future, in their great and pious zeal for the interests of learning, they cannot shake those principles which must and will...
الصفحة 7 - I believe I made tolerable progress in most branches which I attended to while in this school, but there was one thing I could not do — I could not make a declamation; I could not speak before the school.
الصفحة 9 - I delivered two or three occasional addresses, which were published. I trust they are forgotten : they were in very bad taste. I had not then learned that all true power in writing is in the idea, not in the style ; an error into which the Ars rhetorica, as it is usually taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine.
الصفحة 383 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
الصفحة 369 - Adams was our Colossus on the floor. He was not graceful, nor elegant, nor remarkably fluent ; but he came out, occasionally, with a power of thought and expression that moved us from our seats.
الصفحة 108 - pacer. As I had two horses with me, I proposed to him to ride one of them, and tie his bag fast to his Bucephalus ; he did accordingly, and turned her forward, where her odd appearance, indescribable gait, and frequent stumblings, afforded us constant amusement. At length we approached Saco River, a very wide, deep, and rapid stream, when this satire on the animal creation, as if to revenge herself on us for our sarcasms, plunged into the river, then very high by the freshet, and was wafted down...
الصفحة 98 - I led her blushing like the morn : all Heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence ; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds ; fresh gales and gentle airs...
الصفحة 8 - Wood's, my father first intimated to me his intention of sending me to college. The very idea thrilled my whole frame. He said he then lived but for his children, and if I would do all I could for myself, he would do what he could for me. I remember that I was quite overcome, and my head grew dizzy. The thing appeared to me so high, and the expense and sacrifice it was to cost my father so great, I could only press his hands and shed tears. Excellent, excellent parent! I can not think of him, even...

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