 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 páginas
...sea, that 'seemed to sink beneath him ; his broad pendant streaming at the main, the stars and the stripes at the fore, the mizzen, and the peak ; and...with all his canvas strained to the wind, and all this thunders roaring from his broadsides. Do not wonder, my friends, that I employ these military... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 40 páginas
...his gallant and accomplished adversary. So the great Conde slept on the eve of the battle of Bocroi; so Alexander slept on the eve of the battle of Arbela;...and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. AS A JUEIST. Mr. Webster's career was not less brilliant as a jurist than as a statesman. In fact,... | |
 | 1859 - 620 páginas
...the sea, that seemed to sink beneath him ; his broad pendant streaming at the main, the stars and the stripes at the fore, the mizzen, and the peak ; and...and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. AS A JURIST. Mr. Webster's career was not less brilliant as a jurist than as a statesman. In fact he... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 páginas
...beneath him ; his broad pendant streaming at the main, the stars and the stripes at the fore, the mizztn, and the peak ; and bearing down like a tempest upon...and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. AS A JURIST. Mr. Webster's career was not less brilliant as a jurist than as a statesman. In fact he... | |
 | John Savage - 1860 - 518 páginas
...shadow of his frowning tiers far over the sea, that seemed to sink beneath him ; his broad pendant streaming at. the main, the stars and stripes at the...and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides." The following passage so succinctly chronicles and characterizes Webster's leading efforts, and so... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 páginas
...the sea, that seemed to sink beneath him ; his broad pendant streaming at the main, the stars and 10 stripes at the fore, the mizzen, and the peak ; and...and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. XCVIL — THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE. AYTOUN. [In the month of February, 1602, a number of persons of the... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 páginas
...the sea, that seemed to sink beneath him ; his broad pendant streaming at the main, the stars and the stripes at the fore, the mizzen, and the peak ; and...and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. xci. WHAT GOOD WILL THE MONUMENT DOt T AM met with the great objection, What good will the Mbnument... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1870 - 908 páginas
...beneath him ; his broad pendant streaming at the main, the stars and the stripes at the fore, the nrnzen, and the peak ; and bearing down like a tempest upon...with all his canvas strained to the wind, and all this thunders roaring from his broadsides. Do not wonder, my friends, that I employ these military... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1875 - 530 páginas
...shore, gently rocking on the tranquil tide, dropping his line here and there, with the varying fortunes of the sport. The next morning he was like some mighty...his antagonist, with all his canvas strained to the breeze, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. You should have seen that audience of men,... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1877 - 472 páginas
...long shadow of his frowning tiers far over the sea that seemed to sink beneath him, his broad pendant streaming at the main, the stars and stripes at the...and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides." His brother Ezekiel had died a year before. When, after the Hayne speech, his own praise was sounded... | |
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I may borrow an illustration from his favorite amusement,' said Mr. Everett, ' he was as unconcerned and as free of spirit as some here have often seen him while floating in his fishing-boat along a hazy shore, gently rocking on the tranquil tide, dropping... 
