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 340
... honourable member's quick perception of resemblances might , I should think , have seen something in the story of Banquo , making it not altogether a subject of the most pleasant contemplation . Those who murdered Banquo , what did they ...
... honourable member's quick perception of resemblances might , I should think , have seen something in the story of Banquo , making it not altogether a subject of the most pleasant contemplation . Those who murdered Banquo , what did they ...
Page 341
... honourable member was inclined to be facetious on the subject . He was rather disposed to make it matter of ridicule , that I had introduced into the debate the name of one Nathan Dane , of whom he assures us he had never before heard ...
... honourable member was inclined to be facetious on the subject . He was rather disposed to make it matter of ridicule , that I had introduced into the debate the name of one Nathan Dane , of whom he assures us he had never before heard ...
Page 343
... hon- ourable member has chosen to draw from my former observa- tions on that subject , I am not willing now entirely to take leave of it without another remark . It need hardly be said that that paper expresses just sentiments on 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 of it without another remark . It need hardly be said that that paper expresses just sentiments on the ...
Page 344
... honourable member has now found out that this gen- tleman , Mr. Dane , was a member of the Hartford Convention . " However uninformed the honourable member may be of charac- ters and occurrences at the North , it would seem that he has ...
... honourable member has now found out that this gen- tleman , Mr. Dane , was a member of the Hartford Convention . " However uninformed the honourable member may be of charac- ters and occurrences at the North , it would seem that he has ...
Page 345
... honourable member was about to overwhelm me with a manifest contradiction . Any one who heard him , and who had not heard what I had , in fact , previously said , must have thought me routed and discomfited , as the gentleman had ...
... honourable member was about to overwhelm me with a manifest contradiction . Any one who heard him , and who had not heard what I had , in fact , previously said , must have thought me routed and discomfited , as the gentleman had ...
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