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... reason he cannot with impunity live as a brute . We have sensibilities as well as senses , spirit as well as flesh . We are a compound of earth and heaven ; dust tempered with tears , and quickened with a spark DANIEL WEBSTER . 17.
... reason he cannot with impunity live as a brute . We have sensibilities as well as senses , spirit as well as flesh . We are a compound of earth and heaven ; dust tempered with tears , and quickened with a spark DANIEL WEBSTER . 17.
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... reason supreme , and combined elaborated meditation with logical truth . This spirit of grand conception , habitual research , and fervid enthusi- asm , ambitious only for the execution of loftiest pur- poses , is the sure prognostic of ...
... reason supreme , and combined elaborated meditation with logical truth . This spirit of grand conception , habitual research , and fervid enthusi- asm , ambitious only for the execution of loftiest pur- poses , is the sure prognostic of ...
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... reason , and common sense , and the public opinion , all call for , my vote shall not be with- holden from the means . Give up your futile projects of invasion . Extinguish the fires that blaze on your in- land frontiers . Establish ...
... reason , and common sense , and the public opinion , all call for , my vote shall not be with- holden from the means . Give up your futile projects of invasion . Extinguish the fires that blaze on your in- land frontiers . Establish ...
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... reason only , but of imagination also , and sentiment ; and that is neither wasted nor misapplied . which is appropriated to the purpose of giving right direction to sentiments , and opening proper springs of feeling in the heart . Let ...
... reason only , but of imagination also , and sentiment ; and that is neither wasted nor misapplied . which is appropriated to the purpose of giving right direction to sentiments , and opening proper springs of feeling in the heart . Let ...
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... reason , public speech sinks to empty declamation , and is " a tale told by an idiot , full of sound and fury ... Reason and imagination dwell in his mind , and characterize its soarings , " like to a pair of eagles in one nest . " His ...
... reason , public speech sinks to empty declamation , and is " a tale told by an idiot , full of sound and fury ... Reason and imagination dwell in his mind , and characterize its soarings , " like to a pair of eagles in one nest . " His ...
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Page 18 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 43 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.
Page 461 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings': at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthron'd in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Page 145 - That Missouri shall be admitted into this Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever upon the fundamental condition that the fourth clause of the twenty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution, submitted on the part of said State to Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States...
Page 52 - I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. /VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country.
Page 7 - We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Page 52 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...
Page 52 - You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 145 - And it shall be the duty of the General Assembly as soon as may be to provide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said University.
Page 10 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.