Biography of Henry ClayS. Hanmer, Jr., and John Jay Phelps, 1831 - 304 pages |
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... expression of countenance , and this power , especially when he was called on to address a Jury , enabled him almost invariably to triumph . By watching with the instinctive keenness of his vision the vibration of the master - chord 10 ...
... expression of countenance , and this power , especially when he was called on to address a Jury , enabled him almost invariably to triumph . By watching with the instinctive keenness of his vision the vibration of the master - chord 10 ...
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... expressed by the anxiety of their countenances , and the deep hush that pervaded the hall . The fact of guilt on the part of the defendant could not be contested . The act , for which she stood indicted , had been committed in the ...
... expressed by the anxiety of their countenances , and the deep hush that pervaded the hall . The fact of guilt on the part of the defendant could not be contested . The act , for which she stood indicted , had been committed in the ...
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... expression . A gentleman , who was in the lobby of the house , and who has since risen to distinction , has averred , that all his subsequent ideas of perfect eloquence have been formed upon that one model . It surpassed any thing which ...
... expression . A gentleman , who was in the lobby of the house , and who has since risen to distinction , has averred , that all his subsequent ideas of perfect eloquence have been formed upon that one model . It surpassed any thing which ...
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... expressed his devotion to them . At the period of which we are speaking , impost duties can scarcely be said to have ever been laid upon articles of foreign growth and manufacture , for any other purpose than that of raising a revenue ...
... expressed his devotion to them . At the period of which we are speaking , impost duties can scarcely be said to have ever been laid upon articles of foreign growth and manufacture , for any other purpose than that of raising a revenue ...
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... expressed a desire , that the exports of the country might continue to be the surplus productions of tillage , and not of manufacturing establish- ments he did not wish that the plough - share and the sickle should be converted into the ...
... expressed a desire , that the exports of the country might continue to be the surplus productions of tillage , and not of manufacturing establish- ments he did not wish that the plough - share and the sickle should be converted into the ...
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Page 105 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 210 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make.
Page 176 - Beware how you forfeit this exalted character ! Beware how you give a fatal sanction in this infant period of our republic scarcely yet two-score years old, to military insubordination!
Page 210 - House, respectively, whether it be expedient or not to make provision for the admission of Missouri into the Union on the same footing as the original States, and for the due execution of the laws of the United States within Missouri; and if not, whether any other, and what, provision adapted to her actual condition ought to be made by law.
Page 105 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 220 - In the month of January, in the year of our Lord and Saviour, 1824, while all European Christendom beheld, with cold and unfeeling indifference, the unexampled wrongs and inexpressible misery of Christian Greece, a proposition was made in the Congress of the United States, almost the sole, the last, the greatest...
Page 199 - That, in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana...
Page 92 - How vain and impotent is party rage, directed against such a man! He is not more elevated by his lofty residence, upon the summit of his own favorite mountain, than he is lifted, by the serenity of his mind, and the consciousness of a well-spent life, above the malignant passions and bitter feelings of the day.
Page 100 - ... negotiate the terms of a peace at Quebec or at Halifax. We are told that England is a proud and lofty nation, which, disdaining to wait for danger, meets it half way. Haughty as she is, we once triumphed over her, and, if we do not listen to the counsels of timidity and despair, we shall again prevail. In such a cause, with the aid of Providence, we must come out crowned with success. But if we fail, let us fail like men, lash ourselves to our gallant tars, and expire together in one common struggle,...
Page 99 - What does a state of war present ? The united energies of one People arrayed against the combined energies of another ; a conflict in which each, party aims to inflict all the injury it can, by sea and land, upon the territories, property, and citizens of the other, — subject only to the rules of mitigated war, practised by civilized Nations.