Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1852 - 637 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 396
... Britain , acknowledged and allowed from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the con- trary . I maintain , in the second place , that the framers of our Constitution understood and appreciated this inherent right . I maintain ...
... Britain , acknowledged and allowed from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the con- trary . I maintain , in the second place , that the framers of our Constitution understood and appreciated this inherent right . I maintain ...
الصفحة 419
... Britain are about to hold this Territory in common much longer . Neither country desires it ; neither country would consent to it . The simple question is , whether the United States shall take the responsibility of giving the notice to ...
... Britain are about to hold this Territory in common much longer . Neither country desires it ; neither country would consent to it . The simple question is , whether the United States shall take the responsibility of giving the notice to ...
الصفحة 420
... Britain and the United States at the precise instant of General Harrison's accession to the Presidency . My honored and venerable col- league ( Mr. Adams ) seemed to understand them , when he charged it openly upon the Van Buren party ...
... Britain and the United States at the precise instant of General Harrison's accession to the Presidency . My honored and venerable col- league ( Mr. Adams ) seemed to understand them , when he charged it openly upon the Van Buren party ...
الصفحة 421
... Britain — all which I utterly deny - no small share of the blame would rest upon the party which threw upon a new administration , in the first hour of its existence , so perilous a responsibility ; the party which brought the country ...
... Britain — all which I utterly deny - no small share of the blame would rest upon the party which threw upon a new administration , in the first hour of its existence , so perilous a responsibility ; the party which brought the country ...
الصفحة 425
... Britain , which will forbid the settlement of any future dispute with that power , except by the sword ; which will henceforth acknowledge the validity of no red lines , but those which shall have been run with blood ; and which will ...
... Britain , which will forbid the settlement of any future dispute with that power , except by the sword ; which will henceforth acknowledge the validity of no red lines , but those which shall have been run with blood ; and which will ...
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الصفحة 676 - Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day ? or shall a nation be born at once ? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
الصفحة 692 - Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign: Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
الصفحة 647 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
الصفحة 410 - Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
الصفحة 690 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
الصفحة 452 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
الصفحة 676 - Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world, that, state the numbers as high as we will, whilst the dispute continues, the exaggeration ends. Whilst we are discussing any given magnitude, they are grown to it.
الصفحة 507 - That all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States shall continue to be regulated in conformity with the existing laws of the States, respectively, wherein such pilots may be, or with such laws as the States may respectively hereafter enact for the purpose, until further legislative provision shall be made by congress.
الصفحة 473 - I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
الصفحة 618 - All thy dominion, Adam, is no more Than what this garden is to all the earth, And all the sea, from one entire globose...