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" It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin, but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke rose first from its rude chimney and curled over the... "
Daniel Webster - Page 222
by John Bach McMaster - 1902 - 343 pages
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Daniel Webster - 1843 - 568 pages
...by public rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself, needs not be ashamed of his early condition. Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a...snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early as that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was...
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Annals and Occurrences of New York City and State, in the Olden Time: Being ...

John Fanning Watson - 1846 - 440 pages
...and civilization, are sufficiently in point, to deserve a repetition here. His remarks are : — " It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin, but my elder brothers and sisters were — in a log cabin, raised amid the snow drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early, as that when...
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The Guardian, Volumes 32-33

1881 - 792 pages
...in a log cabiu, but my older brothers and sisters were born in one, and ra:sed among tke gnow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke arose from the rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white...
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Personal Memorials of Daniel Webster ...

Charles Lanman - 1852 - 82 pages
...Webster's birthplace is the following extract from one of his speeches, delivered at Saratoga, in 1840: " It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin;...and sisters were born in a log cabin raised amid the snow drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early as that, when the smoke first rose from its rude...
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Lives of the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine)., Volume 3

1852 - 302 pages
...time: " It did not happen to mo to 1* bora in a log cahin ; but my elder brothers and sisters wero born in a log cabin raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early as that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was...
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The Ohio Journal of Education, Volume 5

1856 - 396 pages
...the published rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of hia early condition. It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin, but my older brothers and sisters were bora in a log cabin, raised among the snow drifts of New Hampshire,...
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THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER

DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 pages
...punished by public rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a...Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke fn-st rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of...
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The American Statesman: Or, Illustrations of the Life and Character of ...

Joseph Banvard - 1853 - 390 pages
...of moving eloquence from Mr. Webster, in which there are other affecting allusions to his father. " Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a...snowdrifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early as that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was...
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Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards].

Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...his birthplace, a very humble farm-house, and to the lowly condition of his family at the time : " It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born ma log cabin raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early as that, when the smoke...
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Old England and New England, in a Series of Views Taken on the Spot, Volume 1

Alfred Bunn - 1853 - 362 pages
...by public rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself, need not be ashamed of his early condition. "Gentlemen, "It did not happen to me to be born in a log-cabin, but my eldest brothers and sisters were born in one, raised amid the snow-drifts of New...
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