 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...hairs make folly venerable ? and is not their period to be reserved for retirement and meditation ? Does he suppose me less capable of gratitude for his...light in Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina ? Has the gentleman discovered in former controversies with the gentleman from Missouri that he is... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 572 pages
...treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman himself bears, — does he esteem me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism, or...sufferings, than if his eyes had first opened upon the light of Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina ? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman himself bears, — does he esteem me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism or...sufferings, than if his eyes had first opened upon the light of Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina ? 4. Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...renown is of the treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman bears himself — does he suppose me less capable of gratitude for his...instead of South Carolina ? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom ? No, sir — increased... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman himself bears, — does he esteem me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism, or...sufferings, than if his eyes had first opened upon the light of Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina ? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...does he suppose me less capable of gratitude for A is' patriotism, or sympathy for his' suffering, than if his eyes had first opened upon the light in...Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina'! Sir, does ho suppose it in his power to exhibit in Carolina a name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom'?... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 554 pages
...treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman himself bears—does he esteem me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism, or...than if : his eyes had first opened upon the light of Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina 1 Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...renown is of the treasures of the whole country. Him, whose honored name the gentleman bears himself — does he suppose me less capable of gratitude for his...instead of South Carolina ? Sir, does he suppose it in his power | to exhibit a Carolina name so bright | as to produce envy in my bosom ? No, sir, —... | |
 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - American essays - 1856 - 470 pages
...treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman himself bears — does he esteem me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism, or...sufferings, than if his eyes had first opened upon the light of Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...himself— does he suppose me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism, or sympathy for his sullerings, than if his eyes had first opened upon the light in...instead of South Carolina ? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina mnne so bright as to produce envy in my bosom! Xo, sir. — increased... | |
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State lines, than their talents and patriotism were capable of being circumscribed within the same narrow limits. In their day and generation, they served and honored the country, and the whole country; and their renown is of the treasures of the whole... 
