Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1852 - 637 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 374
... circumstances which more , even , than ever before , will absorb all our thoughts and engross our whole attention . - - There will be no chance for looking after local politics , in the hurly - burly of the next Presidential struggle ...
... circumstances which more , even , than ever before , will absorb all our thoughts and engross our whole attention . - - There will be no chance for looking after local politics , in the hurly - burly of the next Presidential struggle ...
الصفحة 396
... circumstances peculiar to those cases , and furnishing no justification for the rule which is under considera- tion here . And I maintain , in the fourth place , that there is abundant reason for the assurance , that the framers of the ...
... circumstances peculiar to those cases , and furnishing no justification for the rule which is under considera- tion here . And I maintain , in the fourth place , that there is abundant reason for the assurance , that the framers of the ...
الصفحة 403
... circumstances , with- out restraint or control . " It will be perceived , Sir , from these passages , that neither of these rules of the British Parliament go the length of the rule of this House . Neither of them provides that ...
... circumstances , with- out restraint or control . " It will be perceived , Sir , from these passages , that neither of these rules of the British Parliament go the length of the rule of this House . Neither of them provides that ...
الصفحة 404
... circumstances , or be entertained in any way whatever ? But what does Mr. Hatsell say further on the subject of these rules ? " The House , " he says , in commenting on one of them , " ought to be particularly cautious not to be over ...
... circumstances , or be entertained in any way whatever ? But what does Mr. Hatsell say further on the subject of these rules ? " The House , " he says , in commenting on one of them , " ought to be particularly cautious not to be over ...
الصفحة 421
... circumstances under which the remarks were made to which the honorable member had reference ? It is well known that a charge of bad faith had been brought against our negotiator , Mr. Webster , for having concealed from Lord Ashburton ...
... circumstances under which the remarks were made to which the honorable member had reference ? It is well known that a charge of bad faith had been brought against our negotiator , Mr. Webster , for having concealed from Lord Ashburton ...
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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...