Biography of Henry ClayS. Hanmer, Jr., and John Jay Phelps, 1831 - 304 էջ |
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... efforts , his achievements and his reward will bear a parallel to those of the Titan , who , for his divine gift to the hu- man race , was doomed to undying agonies . In the following work , I have , when speaking of Mr. Clay's ...
... efforts , his achievements and his reward will bear a parallel to those of the Titan , who , for his divine gift to the hu- man race , was doomed to undying agonies . In the following work , I have , when speaking of Mr. Clay's ...
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... effort at publick speaking , and was wholly unconscious of his own oratori- cal powers , although it is said , that his style of con- versation was universally admired by his associates , for its extreme correctness and elegance . The ...
... effort at publick speaking , and was wholly unconscious of his own oratori- cal powers , although it is said , that his style of con- versation was universally admired by his associates , for its extreme correctness and elegance . The ...
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... efforts of its author , which have since thrilled like a voice of salvation through the country . It is scarcely necessary to add , that his reputa- tion as a speaker was at once established , and that he immediately became a leading ...
... efforts of its author , which have since thrilled like a voice of salvation through the country . It is scarcely necessary to add , that his reputa- tion as a speaker was at once established , and that he immediately became a leading ...
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... efforts . They are well remembered by his fellow citizens , from whom we learn , that he was universally regarded as a powerful spirit , destined , in the meridian of life , to take his place among the leading intel- ligences of the age ...
... efforts . They are well remembered by his fellow citizens , from whom we learn , that he was universally regarded as a powerful spirit , destined , in the meridian of life , to take his place among the leading intel- ligences of the age ...
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... efforts of the counsel for the prosecution were such as might have been expected from a powerful and learned man engaged in a case of deep and general interest ; yet Mr. Clay not only succeeded in saving the life of his client , but ...
... efforts of the counsel for the prosecution were such as might have been expected from a powerful and learned man engaged in a case of deep and general interest ; yet Mr. Clay not only succeeded in saving the life of his client , but ...
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Էջ 105 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Էջ 210 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make.
Էջ 176 - Beware how you forfeit this exalted character ! Beware how you give a fatal sanction in this infant period of our republic scarcely yet two-score years old, to military insubordination!
Էջ 210 - House, respectively, whether it be expedient or not to make provision for the admission of Missouri into the Union on the same footing as the original States, and for the due execution of the laws of the United States within Missouri; and if not, whether any other, and what, provision adapted to her actual condition ought to be made by law.
Էջ 105 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Էջ 220 - In the month of January, in the year of our Lord and Saviour, 1824, while all European Christendom beheld, with cold and unfeeling indifference, the unexampled wrongs and inexpressible misery of Christian Greece, a proposition was made in the Congress of the United States, almost the sole, the last, the greatest...
Էջ 199 - That, in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana...
Էջ 92 - How vain and impotent is party rage, directed against such a man! He is not more elevated by his lofty residence, upon the summit of his own favorite mountain, than he is lifted, by the serenity of his mind, and the consciousness of a well-spent life, above the malignant passions and bitter feelings of the day.
Էջ 100 - ... negotiate the terms of a peace at Quebec or at Halifax. We are told that England is a proud and lofty nation, which, disdaining to wait for danger, meets it half way. Haughty as she is, we once triumphed over her, and, if we do not listen to the counsels of timidity and despair, we shall again prevail. In such a cause, with the aid of Providence, we must come out crowned with success. But if we fail, let us fail like men, lash ourselves to our gallant tars, and expire together in one common struggle,...
Էջ 99 - What does a state of war present ? The united energies of one People arrayed against the combined energies of another ; a conflict in which each, party aims to inflict all the injury it can, by sea and land, upon the territories, property, and citizens of the other, — subject only to the rules of mitigated war, practised by civilized Nations.