Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University, Volume 1 |
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Page 259 - Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Page 545 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed...
Page 509 - ... as one catches the roar of the ocean in the ripple of a rivulet ; — as one sees the blaze of noon in the first glimmer of twilight. There is one objection, however, on which I would for a moment dwell, because it has a commanding influence over many minds, and is clothed with a specious importance. It is often said, that there have been eminent men and eminent writers, to whom the ancient...
Page 254 - ... and pilots; Judicial Courts which shall embrace the whole constitutional powers ; national notaries ; public and national justices of the peace, for the commercial and national concerns of the United States. By such enlarged and liberal institutions, the...
Page 558 - I have read, with great attention, your judgment in the slave case. Upon the fullest consideration which I have been able to give the subject, I entirely concur in your views. If I had been called upon to pronounce a judgment in a like case, I should have certainly arrived at the same result.
Page 132 - As the public good requires that the Governor should not be under the undue influence of any of the members of the General Court by a dependence on them for his support, that he should in all cases act with freedom for the benefit of the public, that he should not have his attention necessarily diverted from that object to his private concerns, and that he should maintain the dignity of the Commonwealth in the character of its chief...
Page 509 - ... pass over all consideration of those admired compositions in which wisdom speaks as with a voice from heaven ; of those sublime efforts of poetical genius which still freshen, as they pass from age to age, in undying vigor; of...
Page 550 - The voice of pleasure or of power may pass by unheeded ; but the voice of affliction — never. The chamber of the sick — the pillow of the dying — the vigils of the dead — the altars of religion, never missed the presence or the sympathies of kind woman.
Page 311 - A new race of men is springing up to govern the nation; they are the hunters after popularity; men ambitious, not of the honour so much as of the profits of office — the demagogues whose principles hang laxly upon them, and who follow not so much what is right as what leads to a temporary vulgar applause. There is great, very great, danger that these men will usurp so much of popular...
Page 339 - ... for the purpose of procuring any negro, mulatto, or person of color, from any foreign kingdom, place, or country, to be transported to any port or place whatsoever, to be held, sold, or otherwise disposed of as slaves or to be held to service or labor...