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... labor , with specimens of his style in each department , was returned . These overtures led to quite a correspondence , and fi- nally to the composition of the present work , which , the reader will perceive , is an enlargement of both ...
... labor , with specimens of his style in each department , was returned . These overtures led to quite a correspondence , and fi- nally to the composition of the present work , which , the reader will perceive , is an enlargement of both ...
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... Labor , His Views of Life and Death , Remarks of Mr. Hillard , General Concern of the Nation , Inscription for his Monument , written by himself , Alarming Symptoms - Executes his Will , Concluding Scenes , Wishes to Comprehend Death ...
... Labor , His Views of Life and Death , Remarks of Mr. Hillard , General Concern of the Nation , Inscription for his Monument , written by himself , Alarming Symptoms - Executes his Will , Concluding Scenes , Wishes to Comprehend Death ...
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... labor at the proper time . In these ways , before he was twelve years old , he had read extensively in history , in travels , and in the English clas sics ; and such was the grasp of his mind , and the tenacity of his memory , that he ...
... labor at the proper time . In these ways , before he was twelve years old , he had read extensively in history , in travels , and in the English clas sics ; and such was the grasp of his mind , and the tenacity of his memory , that he ...
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... labor , that he might commence in earnest a course of life bet- ter fitted to his capacities . It is the advice of a French writer , who has addressed many valuable maxims to the young : " Aim high , aim at the highest mark ; for it is ...
... labor , that he might commence in earnest a course of life bet- ter fitted to his capacities . It is the advice of a French writer , who has addressed many valuable maxims to the young : " Aim high , aim at the highest mark ; for it is ...
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... indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in 66 HIS DESCRIPTION OF TRUE ELOQUENCE . 57 vain . Words 56 WEBSTER AND HIS MASTER - PIECES .
... indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in 66 HIS DESCRIPTION OF TRUE ELOQUENCE . 57 vain . Words 56 WEBSTER AND HIS MASTER - PIECES .
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Page 278 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 57 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 278 - Liberty first and Union afterward"; 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...
Page 336 - Croix River to the Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the North-westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 336 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 348 - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient and adequate squadron, or naval force of vessels, of suitable numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations, of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the slave trade...
Page 306 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar offj they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 233 - An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...
Page 336 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 26 - ... revolutionary war, shrunk from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his country, and to raise his children to a condition better than his own, may my name and the name of my posterity be blotted forever from the memory of mankind ! [Mr.
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