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 335
... occasion , was highly discursive , not to say rambling , introducing a large variety of topics , and hardly touching upon the special subject - matter of the resolution before the Senate . I give the argument of Webster's speech entire ...
... occasion , was highly discursive , not to say rambling , introducing a large variety of topics , and hardly touching upon the special subject - matter of the resolution before the Senate . I give the argument of Webster's speech entire ...
Page 338
... occasion , I hope on no occasion , to be betrayed into any loss of temper : but if provoked , as I trust I never shall be , into crimi- nation and recrimination , the honourable member may perhaps find that , in that contest , there ...
... occasion , I hope on no occasion , to be betrayed into any loss of temper : but if provoked , as I trust I never shall be , into crimi- nation and recrimination , the honourable member may perhaps find that , in that contest , there ...
Page 343
... occasion to recur to the Ordinance of 1787 , in order to defend myself against the inferences which the hon- ourable member has chosen to draw from my former observa- tions on that subject , I am not willing now entirely to take leave ...
... occasion to recur to the Ordinance of 1787 , in order to defend myself against the inferences which the hon- ourable member has chosen to draw from my former observa- tions on that subject , I am not willing now entirely to take leave ...
Page 344
... occasion , some high - minded and lofty spirit , some magnanimous and true - hearted monitor , possessing the means of local knowledge , and ready to supply the honourable member with every thing , down even to forgotten and moth- eaten ...
... occasion , some high - minded and lofty spirit , some magnanimous and true - hearted monitor , possessing the means of local knowledge , and ready to supply the honourable member with every thing , down even to forgotten and moth- eaten ...
Page 345
... occasions . What I said here on Wednesday is in exact accordance with the opinion ex- pressed by me in the other House in 1825. Though the gentle- man had the metaphysics of Hudibras , though he were able " to sever and divide A hair ...
... occasions . What I said here on Wednesday is in exact accordance with the opinion ex- pressed by me in the other House in 1825. Though the gentle- man had the metaphysics of Hudibras , though he were able " to sever and divide A hair ...
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