 | Daniel Webster - 1886 - 227 Seiten
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the...and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ! MASSACHUSETTS. — Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts ; she... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 334 Seiten
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...up • here to abate the tithe of a hair from his j ust character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ! Sir, let me refer to... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 276 Seiten
...capacity in any son of the f ' South, and if, gangrened by state jealousy or moved by local prejudice, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his character and just fame.N Direction. — Bring in good climaxes of all the kinds spoken of — as many... | |
 | 1890 - 590 Seiten
...floor of Congress, he cherished magnanimity toward both sections of the country. Said he : " If I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South, and if, moved by local prejudice, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his' just character and just fame, — may my tongue... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers, Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle - 1891 - 282 Seiten
...I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the South; aud if, moved by local prejudices or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate...pleasing recollections; let me indulge in refreshing remembrances of the past; let me remind you that, in early times, no States cherished greater harmony,... | |
 | James Vincent Coombs - 1891 - 396 Seiten
...and the country ; or if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven ; if I see extraordinary capacity or virtue in any son of the South ; and if, moved by...gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate a tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 304 Seiten
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the South, and if, moved by local prejudices or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 282 Seiten
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the South; and if, moved by local prejudices or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just... | |
 | John Goss - 1891 - 260 Seiten
...sincere devotion, to liberty and the country; or if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South, and if, moved by any local prejudice, or gangrened by state jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - 1892 - 854 Seiten
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see very remote relation. Hence ju&t character and just fame, — may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth I Sir, let me recur... | |
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State or neighborhood; when I refuse for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven — if I see extraordinary... 
