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Page 29 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such* as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 8 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased : The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 42 - We the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, with ARMS oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American COLONIES.
Page 44 - When your lordships look at the papers, transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Page 46 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting-, That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 29 - Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 44 - I must declare and avow, that, in all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study, — I have read ''• Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that, for solidity of reasoning, force of ''"sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a "'" complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 29 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and, with the setting sun, Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the' jEgean isle : thus they relate, Erring...
Page 44 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world - that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal.
Page 47 - UNBORN ages and visions of glory crowd upon my soul, the realization of all which, however, is in the hands and good pleasure of Almighty God ; but, under his divine blessing, it will be dependent on the character and the virtues of ourselves, and of our posterity. If classical history has been found to be, is now, and shall continue to be, the concomitant5 of free instituticiis, and of popular eloquence, what a field is opening to 08 for another Herod'otus,' another Thucydides,
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| Title | An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society: February 23, 1852 Issue 31845 of 19th-century legal treatises Volume 5, Issue 2 of Webster pamphlets |
| Author | Daniel Webster |
| Contributor | New-York Historical Society |
| Publisher | Press of the Historical Society, 1852 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 57 pages |
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