 Yes, I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of being the humble instrument, in the hands of Providence, to reconcile a divided people ; once more to revive concord and harmony in a distracted land ; the pleasing ambition of contemplating the glorious...  Life and times - Էջ 154Henry Clay - 1863Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 էջ
...attachment, and fidelity, and gratitude, which I have not always found in the walks of public life. Yes, I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of being the...in the hands of Providence, to reconcile a divided peoEle, once more to revive concord and harmftny in a distracted ind, — the pleasing ambition of... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 368 էջ
...Union, anil I am willing to go home to Ashland, and renouncc publ ic tervici forever. * * * Yea. 1 have ambition! but it is the ambition of being the...glorious spectacle of a free, united, prosperous and practical people!" The settlement of the South Carolina controversy left peace and all its fraternal... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 էջ
...— Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable ! 13. CIVIL WAR. — Henry Clay. Yes, I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of being the...instrument, in the hands of Providence, to reconcile a distracted people, once more to revive concord and harmony in a distracted land, — the pleasing ambition... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 էջ
...attachment and fidelity, and gratitude which I have not always found in the walks of public life. Yes, I have ambition! but it is the ambition of being the...a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people. n. Clay. cxxix. THE NOBLEST PUBLIC VIRTUE. riiHEKE is a sort of courage, to which — I frankly confess... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 էջ
...attachment, and fidelity, and gratitude, which I have not always found in the walks of public life. Yes, I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of being the...a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people! South Carolina must perceive the embarassments of her situation. She must be desirous — it is unnatural... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1870 - 636 էջ
...attachment and fidelity, and gratitude which I have not always fouud in the walks of public life. Yes, I have ambition! but it is the ambition of being the...in a distracted land, — the pleasing ambition of contemplatiug the glorious spectacle of a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people. //. clay.... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 էջ
...attachment and fidelity, and gratitude, which I have not always found in the walks of public life. 7. Yes, I have ambition : but it is the ambition of being the...more to revive concord and harmony in a distracted laud, — the pleasing ambition of contemplating the glorious spectacle of a free, united, prosperous,... | |
 | 1875 - 558 էջ
...know me — they understand me. I appeal to my God and to them for the sincerity of my motives. YES, / have ambition, but it is the ambition of being the...of a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people ! EXTRACT FROM MR. POINSETT'S SPEECH, DELIVERED IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, DURING THE NULLIFICATION... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1876 - 122 էջ
...walks of public life. Yes, I have ambition; but it is the ambition of being the humble*instrument, in the hands of Providence, to reconcile a divided...a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people. HENRY CLAY. THE VICTORIES OF PEACE. PEACE has its own peculiar victories, in comparison with which... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1877 - 108 էջ
...long tried and loved) , and the honest misconception both of friends and foes. Ambition I — yes, 1 have ambition ; but it is the ambition of being the...a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people. 3. Tell me, ye who tread the sods of yon sacred height, is Warren dead? Can you not still see him,... | |
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