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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Page 325
... course of mere nibbles and snatches from a multitude of authors , where they cannot stay long enough with any one to de- velop any real taste for him , or derive any solid benefit from him . I shall hope to be excused for observing ...
... course of mere nibbles and snatches from a multitude of authors , where they cannot stay long enough with any one to de- velop any real taste for him , or derive any solid benefit from him . I shall hope to be excused for observing ...
Page 340
... course they who had killed the coalition were the ones to be haunted by its ghost ; and Webster here delicately implies that they had expected to stand first in the counsels of the " a barren sceptre in their gripe , Thence to 340 WEBSTER .
... course they who had killed the coalition were the ones to be haunted by its ghost ; and Webster here delicately implies that they had expected to stand first in the counsels of the " a barren sceptre in their gripe , Thence to 340 WEBSTER .
Page 341
... course of my observations the other day , Mr. Presi dent , I paid a passing tribute of respect to a very worthy man , Mr. Dane , of Massachusetts . It so happened that he drew the Ordinance of 1787 , for the government of the ...
... course of my observations the other day , Mr. Presi dent , I paid a passing tribute of respect to a very worthy man , Mr. Dane , of Massachusetts . It so happened that he drew the Ordinance of 1787 , for the government of the ...
Page 344
... course of this debate to follow him at length in those excursions , the honourable member returned , and attempted another object . He referred to a speech of mine in the other House , the same which I had occasion to allude to myself ...
... course of this debate to follow him at length in those excursions , the honourable member returned , and attempted another object . He referred to a speech of mine in the other House , the same which I had occasion to allude to myself ...
Page 345
... course of the debate and to the point in discussion would have imagined , from so triumphant a tone , that the honourable member was about to overwhelm me with a manifest contradiction . Any one who heard him , and who had not heard ...
... course of the debate and to the point in discussion would have imagined , from so triumphant a tone , that the honourable member was about to overwhelm me with a manifest contradiction . Any one who heard him , and who had not heard ...
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