Biography of Henry ClayS. Hanmer, Jr., and John Jay Phelps, 1831 - 304 páginas |
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... character , is seldom read with that enthusiasm , which is generally called forth by the story even of a second rate chieftain . The reading community are more fond of tracing the progress of action than of thought , although the latter ...
... character , is seldom read with that enthusiasm , which is generally called forth by the story even of a second rate chieftain . The reading community are more fond of tracing the progress of action than of thought , although the latter ...
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... character . Henry Clay was born in Hanover county , Virginia , on the 12th of April , 1777. His father , a clergyman of considerable talent and high respectability , died while Henry was yet a child . By the kindness of a gentleman in ...
... character . Henry Clay was born in Hanover county , Virginia , on the 12th of April , 1777. His father , a clergyman of considerable talent and high respectability , died while Henry was yet a child . By the kindness of a gentleman in ...
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... character of every man with whom he came in contact . He would read it in the eye , and in the flitting expression of countenance , and this power , especially when he was called on to address a Jury , enabled him almost invariably to ...
... character of every man with whom he came in contact . He would read it in the eye , and in the flitting expression of countenance , and this power , especially when he was called on to address a Jury , enabled him almost invariably to ...
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... character is undoubtedly one of the means by which he has so generally through life secured the attachment of his associates . Probably he has more personal friends — more friends , who , in the fullness of their enthusiastick love ...
... character is undoubtedly one of the means by which he has so generally through life secured the attachment of his associates . Probably he has more personal friends — more friends , who , in the fullness of their enthusiastick love ...
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... character of the family from which she was de- scended . Her victim was a Miss Phelps , a beautiful and amiable young lady , and the sister of her husband . It seems , that Mrs. P. , while in her husband's house , taking some offence at ...
... character of the family from which she was de- scended . Her victim was a Miss Phelps , a beautiful and amiable young lady , and the sister of her husband . It seems , that Mrs. P. , while in her husband's house , taking some offence at ...
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Página 105 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Página 210 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make.
Página 176 - Beware how you forfeit this exalted character ! Beware how you give a fatal sanction in this infant period of our republic scarcely yet two-score years old, to military insubordination!
Página 210 - House, respectively, whether it be expedient or not to make provision for the admission of Missouri into the Union on the same footing as the original States, and for the due execution of the laws of the United States within Missouri; and if not, whether any other, and what, provision adapted to her actual condition ought to be made by law.
Página 105 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Página 220 - In the month of January, in the year of our Lord and Saviour, 1824, while all European Christendom beheld, with cold and unfeeling indifference, the unexampled wrongs and inexpressible misery of Christian Greece, a proposition was made in the Congress of the United States, almost the sole, the last, the greatest...
Página 199 - That, in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana...
Página 92 - How vain and impotent is party rage, directed against such a man! He is not more elevated by his lofty residence, upon the summit of his own favorite mountain, than he is lifted, by the serenity of his mind, and the consciousness of a well-spent life, above the malignant passions and bitter feelings of the day.
Página 100 - ... negotiate the terms of a peace at Quebec or at Halifax. We are told that England is a proud and lofty nation, which, disdaining to wait for danger, meets it half way. Haughty as she is, we once triumphed over her, and, if we do not listen to the counsels of timidity and despair, we shall again prevail. In such a cause, with the aid of Providence, we must come out crowned with success. But if we fail, let us fail like men, lash ourselves to our gallant tars, and expire together in one common struggle,...
Página 99 - What does a state of war present ? The united energies of one People arrayed against the combined energies of another ; a conflict in which each, party aims to inflict all the injury it can, by sea and land, upon the territories, property, and citizens of the other, — subject only to the rules of mitigated war, practised by civilized Nations.