Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1852 - 637 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 378
... session commenced . Not soon shall I forget the emo- tions with which I perused the late message of Governor Mor- ton , on its arrival in Washington . Not soon shall I forget the indignant expressions of my honorable and excellent ...
... session commenced . Not soon shall I forget the emo- tions with which I perused the late message of Governor Mor- ton , on its arrival in Washington . Not soon shall I forget the indignant expressions of my honorable and excellent ...
الصفحة 387
... session of the Legislature , upon the independence of the judiciary by the unconstitutional act which was so rashly adopted for reducing the salary of the judges . I wished , also , to have borne my humble testimony to the charac- ters ...
... session of the Legislature , upon the independence of the judiciary by the unconstitutional act which was so rashly adopted for reducing the salary of the judges . I wished , also , to have borne my humble testimony to the charac- ters ...
الصفحة 389
... session commenced , in discussing what are called first principles . For eight or ten days , not long since gone by , we were occupied with the consideration of that great writ of personal liberty , the Habeas Corpus . And , in the ...
... session commenced , in discussing what are called first principles . For eight or ten days , not long since gone by , we were occupied with the consideration of that great writ of personal liberty , the Habeas Corpus . And , in the ...
الصفحة 393
... session , there is no power elsewhere to revise or reverse our decision . We have the power , also , to adopt a rule of proceeding by which the yeas and nays shall not be recorded on a call of one fifth of the members present , or shall ...
... session , there is no power elsewhere to revise or reverse our decision . We have the power , also , to adopt a rule of proceeding by which the yeas and nays shall not be recorded on a call of one fifth of the members present , or shall ...
الصفحة 402
... session , in April and June , 1698 , the House , having felt the inconveniency resulting from admitting these petitions , peremptorily refused to receive the petitions which were then offered against the taxes at that time depending ...
... session , in April and June , 1698 , the House , having felt the inconveniency resulting from admitting these petitions , peremptorily refused to receive the petitions which were then offered against the taxes at that time depending ...
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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...