 | Daniel Webster - 1850 - 64 pages
...dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am loqking out for no fragment upon which to float away from...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of all ; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1850 - 52 pages
...surrounding dangers, but not withont hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, but fot the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole ; and there is that which will keep me... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1852 - 60 pages
...from his lips, speaking not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American, and as a member of the Senate of the United States. «He...honor. By a singular felicity of fortune, Mr. Webster became, the second time, the principal instrument of a deliverance as signal as any which has occurred... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1853 - 390 pages
...from his lips, speaking, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a northern man, but as an American, and as a member of the Senate of the United States. '...float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, 198 THE RESULT. but for the good of the whole, for the preservation of the Union.' It has turned out... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 566 pages
...existing dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of all ; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | Jacob S. Denman - 1853 - 158 pages
...dangers, and not without hope. I have a part to act ; not for my own security and safety — for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck is to ensue — but for the good of- the whole, and the preservation of the whole. I speak to-day for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 554 pages
...surrounding dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | Ivory Chamberlain, Thomas Moses Foote - 1856 - 230 pages
...would neither shrink from his duty nor abandon hope. " I am looking out for no fragment," he says, " upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 648 pages
...dangers, but not •without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole; and there is that which will keep mo to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Samuel M. Smucker - 1859 - 568 pages
...surrounding dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole ; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
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I mean to perform it with fidelity, not without a sense of existing dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must... 
