Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1852 - 637 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 380
... relation to our State credit . Sir , if there has been any thing as to which the people of this Commonwealth have felt , and have had a right to feel , a true and lively satisfac- tion , a just and generous pride , during the past ten ...
... relation to our State credit . Sir , if there has been any thing as to which the people of this Commonwealth have felt , and have had a right to feel , a true and lively satisfac- tion , a just and generous pride , during the past ten ...
الصفحة 384
... relation to the annual expenditures of the State , —in that flagrant misstatement , more especially , that the State had expended more than twelve hun- dred thousand dollars , during the last eight years , over and above its receipts ...
... relation to the annual expenditures of the State , —in that flagrant misstatement , more especially , that the State had expended more than twelve hun- dred thousand dollars , during the last eight years , over and above its receipts ...
الصفحة 391
... relations we sustain to our constituents . I hold it to be unwarranted by any thing either in the reason or the history of parliamentary proceedings . I hold it to be in direct conflict with the spirit and intent of ex- press provisions ...
... relations we sustain to our constituents . I hold it to be unwarranted by any thing either in the reason or the history of parliamentary proceedings . I hold it to be in direct conflict with the spirit and intent of ex- press provisions ...
الصفحة 409
... relation to these petitions has done more than all other causes combined to bring the Consti- tution into disregard and the Union into danger . Other causes have indeed coöperated with this cause . Your arbitrary and oppressive State ...
... relation to these petitions has done more than all other causes combined to bring the Consti- tution into disregard and the Union into danger . Other causes have indeed coöperated with this cause . Your arbitrary and oppressive State ...
الصفحة 416
... relation to the commerce and navigation of the Pacific Ocean . The whale fishery of this country requires safe stations and harbors on the northwest coast . And by what part of the nation is this fishery carried on ? Why , Sir , the ...
... relation to the commerce and navigation of the Pacific Ocean . The whale fishery of this country requires safe stations and harbors on the northwest coast . And by what part of the nation is this fishery carried on ? Why , Sir , the ...
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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...