Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851Little, Brown,, 1852 - 747 páginas |
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... Speaker , passed by the House of Representatives of Massachusetts , March 21 , 1840 . THE PROCEEDS OF THE PUBLIC LANDS . A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States , July 2 , 1841 • THE POLICY OF ...
... Speaker , passed by the House of Representatives of Massachusetts , March 21 , 1840 . THE PROCEEDS OF THE PUBLIC LANDS . A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States , July 2 , 1841 • THE POLICY OF ...
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... SPEAKER . An Address delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States , December 6 , 1847 . THE DEATH OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . Announcement of the Death of Ex - President Adams to the House of Repre- sentatives of the United ...
... SPEAKER . An Address delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States , December 6 , 1847 . THE DEATH OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . Announcement of the Death of Ex - President Adams to the House of Repre- sentatives of the United ...
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... Speaker , who said , " Sit down , Mr. Washington , your modesty equals your valor ; and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess . 99 But it was not solid information , or sound judgment , or even that rare combination of ...
... Speaker , who said , " Sit down , Mr. Washington , your modesty equals your valor ; and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess . 99 But it was not solid information , or sound judgment , or even that rare combination of ...
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... speaker of the Coun- cil ; " and Sir Francis gave a practical demonstration of the sense which he entertained of Bowdoin's importance to the popular party , by negativing him as a councillor at the next annual election . To this most ...
... speaker of the Coun- cil ; " and Sir Francis gave a practical demonstration of the sense which he entertained of Bowdoin's importance to the popular party , by negativing him as a councillor at the next annual election . To this most ...
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... Speaker , from any partici- pation in this debate . I am entirely aware that little personal satisfaction , and certainly no personal popularity , is to be gained by an expression of the sentiments which I entertain upon the question at ...
... Speaker , from any partici- pation in this debate . I am entirely aware that little personal satisfaction , and certainly no personal popularity , is to be gained by an expression of the sentiments which I entertain upon the question at ...
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ad valorem administration admit adopted already American authority bank believe better bill Boston Bowdoin Britain British called certainly Chairman character circumstances citizens colonies commerce committee common Commonwealth Congress Constitution declared desire doctrine duties England Executive existence Faneuil Hall favor foreign friends gentleman from Gloucester honorable member House House of Commons idea importance influence institutions interest James Bowdoin James Madison labor land less liberty manufactures Massachusetts measure ment Mexico never occasion opinion Oregon Oregon question Oregon Territory party patriotism peace persons petitions political present President principles proposed protection provision purpose question regard Republic resolution revenue Samuel Adams secure Senate session slavery South Carolina Speaker speech spirit tariff tariff of 1842 territory Texas thing tion Treasury treaty Union United vote Washington Whig Whig party whole Wilmot proviso Winthrop
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Página 599 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 224 - And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
Página 34 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 144 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Página 84 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 87 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Página 347 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Página 640 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Página 217 - But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Página 155 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.