Text-book of Prose, from Burke, Webster, and Bacon, with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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... feeling of unkindness towards the honourable member . Some passages , it is true , had occurred since our acquaintance in this body , which I could have wished might have been otherwise ; but I had used philosophy and for- gotten them ...
... feeling of unkindness towards the honourable member . Some passages , it is true , had occurred since our acquaintance in this body , which I could have wished might have been otherwise ; but I had used philosophy and for- gotten them ...
Page 337
... feelings . I am not one of those , Sir , who esteem any tribute of regard , whether light and occasional , or more serious and deliberate , which may be bestowed on others , as so much unjustly withholden from themselves . But the tone ...
... feelings . I am not one of those , Sir , who esteem any tribute of regard , whether light and occasional , or more serious and deliberate , which may be bestowed on others , as so much unjustly withholden from themselves . But the tone ...
Page 342
... feeling ; and of late years it has always been touched , and generally with effect , whenever the object has been to unite the whole South against Northern men or Northern measures . This feeling , always carefully kept alive , and ...
... feeling ; and of late years it has always been touched , and generally with effect , whenever the object has been to unite the whole South against Northern men or Northern measures . This feeling , always carefully kept alive , and ...
Page 345
... feelings and in measures unfavourable to the West . I thought his opinions unfounded and erroneous , as to the general course of the government , and ventured to reply to them . The gentleman had remarked on the analogy of other cases ...
... feelings and in measures unfavourable to the West . I thought his opinions unfounded and erroneous , as to the general course of the government , and ventured to reply to them . The gentleman had remarked on the analogy of other cases ...
Page 348
... feeling or regard ; we do not follow rivers and moun- tains , and lines of latitude , to find boundaries , beyond which public improvements do not benefit us . We who come here , as agents and representatives of these narrow - minded ...
... feeling or regard ; we do not follow rivers and moun- tains , and lines of latitude , to find boundaries , beyond which public improvements do not benefit us . We who come here , as agents and representatives of these narrow - minded ...
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