... Life of Daniel Webster: The Statesman and the Patriot. Containing Numerous Anecdotes ...Lee and Shepard, 1868 - 263 páginas |
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... heard Mr. Webster say that he had charge of his father's saw - mill , and was accustomed to tread back the log - carriage , ' when he was not heavier than a robin . ' An old schoolmate of his told me that the mill was owned in shares ...
... heard Mr. Webster say that he had charge of his father's saw - mill , and was accustomed to tread back the log - carriage , ' when he was not heavier than a robin . ' An old schoolmate of his told me that the mill was owned in shares ...
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... that he had before that com- mitted to memory Watts ' Hymns and the metrical version of the Psalms . He was accustomed to say , in his later years , that he could repeat any stanza of Watts , of which he heard the first 40 LIFE OF.
... that he had before that com- mitted to memory Watts ' Hymns and the metrical version of the Psalms . He was accustomed to say , in his later years , that he could repeat any stanza of Watts , of which he heard the first 40 LIFE OF.
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... heard the first line ; so closely did what he had conned in the forest adhere to him . He needed to read poetry but twice to be able to repeat it . While such a dearth of books existed , he conned his father's collection over and over ...
... heard the first line ; so closely did what he had conned in the forest adhere to him . He needed to read poetry but twice to be able to repeat it . While such a dearth of books existed , he conned his father's collection over and over ...
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... : " I see Deacon True's boys there every Sunday morning , and I never heard of their complaining . " " Oh , yes , Sir , " answered Daniel , " but the Dea con's boys live half way there , and have only DANIEL * 45 WEBSTER .
... : " I see Deacon True's boys there every Sunday morning , and I never heard of their complaining . " " Oh , yes , Sir , " answered Daniel , " but the Dea con's boys live half way there , and have only DANIEL * 45 WEBSTER .
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... heard it read better ; and when Daniel closed and returned him the book , he simply said , without asking another question , " Young man , you are qualified to enter this institution . " Daniel remained only nine months at Exeter . His ...
... heard it read better ; and when Daniel closed and returned him the book , he simply said , without asking another question , " Young man , you are qualified to enter this institution . " Daniel remained only nine months at Exeter . His ...
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Página 242 - States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as
Página 242 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union : on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched it may be in fraternal blood...
Página 18 - It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, raised among the snowdrifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early, that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Página 243 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Página 54 - I remember," says Mr. Webster, in an autobiographical memorandum of his boyhood, "the very hill which we were ascending, through deep snows, in a New England sleigh, when my father made known this purpose to me. I could not speak. How could he, I thought, with so large a family and in such narrow circumstances, think of incurring so great an expense for me. A warm glow ran all over me, and I laid my head on my father's shoulder and wept.
Página 44 - He talked awhile in the field, and went on his way. When he was gone, my father called me to him, and we sat down beneath the elm, on a haycock. He said, " My son, that is a worthy man, he is a member of Congress, he goes to Philadelphia, and gets six dollars a day, while I toil here. It. is because he had an education, which I never had. If I had had his early education, I should have been in Philadelphia in his place. I came near it as it was. But I missed it, and now I must work here.
Página 269 - Philosophical Argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith which is in me; but my heart has always assured and re-assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be a Divine Reality. The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.
Página 167 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans; we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 44 - Philadelphia, and gets six dollars a day, while I toil here. It. is because he had an education, which I never had. If I had had his early education, I should have been in Philadelphia in his place. I came near it as it was. But I missed it, and now I must work here." " My dear father," said I,
Página 227 - Massachusetts, it stands a memorial of the last, and a monitor to the present and to all succeeding generations. I have spoken of the loftiness of its purpose. If it had been without any other design than the creation of a work of art, the granite of which it is composed would have slept in its native bed.