Monument to the Memory of Henry Clay ...W.A. Clarke, 1857 - 516 էջ |
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... eloquence . It may seem fanciful to some , to go thus far back for " the hidings of his power . " But let it be considered , that we take the incident , not so much for what it is in itself as for the evi- dence which it gives , of an ...
... eloquence . It may seem fanciful to some , to go thus far back for " the hidings of his power . " But let it be considered , that we take the incident , not so much for what it is in itself as for the evi- dence which it gives , of an ...
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... eloquent men is a curious commentary upon the oft - repeated assertion , that greatness is the offspring of circumstances . We can not leave the history of HENRY CLAY , where poverty and the struggle against disadvantages are about to ...
... eloquent men is a curious commentary upon the oft - repeated assertion , that greatness is the offspring of circumstances . We can not leave the history of HENRY CLAY , where poverty and the struggle against disadvantages are about to ...
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... eloquence ; and then turn to Patrick Henry , sitting indolently upon a barrel - head in his grocery , and looking , although with no meaningless stare , upon the rude sports of his customers ; to our CLAY , not the least among them ...
... eloquence ; and then turn to Patrick Henry , sitting indolently upon a barrel - head in his grocery , and looking , although with no meaningless stare , upon the rude sports of his customers ; to our CLAY , not the least among them ...
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... eloquence of highly wrought feeling . It arises , in part , from a love of excitement , natural to every human breast , and , in part , from admiration of a high display of power ; that power seeming especially wonderful , which can ...
... eloquence of highly wrought feeling . It arises , in part , from a love of excitement , natural to every human breast , and , in part , from admiration of a high display of power ; that power seeming especially wonderful , which can ...
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... Eloquence is regarded by them , with more enthusiasm , perhaps , than even military exploits , by which ... eloquence , can not be imagined . By his early life , he had been taught better how to sympathize with , and to approach , his ...
... Eloquence is regarded by them , with more enthusiasm , perhaps , than even military exploits , by which ... eloquence , can not be imagined . By his early life , he had been taught better how to sympathize with , and to approach , his ...
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Էջ 457 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Էջ 61 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Էջ 515 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Էջ 462 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ; of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, Praised, wept, and honoured by the Muse he loved.
Էջ 219 - ... that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Էջ 474 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Էջ 499 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er : So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Էջ 58 - Beware how you give a fatal sanction in this infant period of our republic scarcely yet two-score years old, to military insubordination!
Էջ 176 - I cannot go through the disgusting recital — my lips have not yet learned to pronounce the sycophantic language of a degraded slave ! Are we so mean, so base, so despicable, that we may not attempt to express our horror, utter our indignation, at. the most brutal and atrocious war that ever stained earth or shocked high Heaven ; at the ferocious deeds of a savage and infuriated soldiery, stimulated and urged on by the clergy of a fanatical and. inimical religion, and rioting in all the excesses...
Էջ 385 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.