| Daniel Webster - 1848 - 498 pages
...party, as far as man could be. But he felt its blow, and he fell. He held an office in the custom-house, and had holden it for a long course of years; and...this retribution from his country for his services, bis zeal, and his fidelity. Sir, you will bear witness, that, when his successor was nominated to the... | |
| New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council - 1853 - 252 pages
...deprived of it, as if unworthy to serve the country which he loved, and for whose liberties, in the vigour of his early manhood, he had thrust himself into the...compunction to wring his aged heart with this retribution for his country, for his services, his zeal, and his fidelity. Sir, you will bear witness that, when... | |
| New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council - 1853 - 248 pages
...mistake in the matter. His character, his standing, his revolutionary services, were ail well known, hut they were known to no purpose ; they weighed not one...to remove him ; it cost no compunction to wring his a;*ed heart with this retribution from his country, for his services, his zeal, and his fidelity. Sir,... | |
| New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council - 1853 - 244 pages
...mistSke in the matter. His character, his standing, his revolutionary services, were ad well known, hut they were known to no purpose ; they, weighed not...against party pretensions. It cost no pains to remove mm ; it cost no compunction to wring his ailed heart with this retribution from his country, for his... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...deprived of it, as if unworthy to serve the country which he loved, and for whose liberties, in the vigour of his early manhood, he had thrust himself into the...zeal, and his fidelity. Sir, you will bear witness that,1 when his successor was nominated to the Senate, and the Senate was told who it was that had... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 pages
...man could be. But he felt its blow, and he fell. He held an office in the customhouse, and had held 0 Y L Փ , i D x >m Q H^ ޟ M c y ] 2 X5 u 8* m *:+ \ I$i r ?y witness,1 that, when his successor was nominated to the Senate, and the Senate were informed who had... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1889 - 816 pages
...manhood, he had thrust himself into the very jaws of ite enemies. There was no mistake in the .natter. His character, his standing, his Revolutionary services,...services, his zeal, and his fidelity. Sir, you will bear witness,1 that, when his successor was nominated to the Sonate, and the Senate were informed who had... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1890 - 644 pages
...of it, as if unworthy to serve the country which he loved, and for whose liberties, in the vigor oi his early manhood, he had thrust himself into the...but they were known to no purpose ; they weighed not on? feather against party pretensions. It cost no pains to remove him ; it cost no compunction to wring... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1914 - 786 pages
...his standing, his Revolutionary services, were all well known ; but they were known to no purjose; they weighed not one feather against party pretensions....services, his zeal, and his fidelity. Sir, you will bear witness,1 that, when his successor was nominated to the Senate, and the Senate were informed who had... | |
| Hershel Parker - 1996 - 1014 pages
...personification of the spirit of 1776, one of the earliest to venture in the cause of liberty. . . . His character, his standing, his Revolutionary services,...weighed not one feather against party pretensions." (Webster's convention was Republican because of the shifting nomenclature: it might earlier have been... | |
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