 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...should be mainly bent on considering, not how the Union may be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it should be broken... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...the abyss below; nor could I regard him as a safe counselor in the affairs of this government, whose thoughts should be mainly bent on considering, not... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 792 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chancea of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...the abyss below ; nor could I regard him as a safe counselor in the affairs of this government, whose thoughts should be mainly bent on considering, not... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...depth of the abyss below ; nor could I regard him us a safe counsellor in the affairs of this government whose thoughts should be mainly bent on considering,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...recess* behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...should be mainly bent on considering, not how the Union might be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - English language - 1864 - 516 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the abyss below ; nor could I regard him as a safe counselor in the affairs of the government, whose thoughts... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...tremor is givee only on certain words,) with animation, j Orotund; full; joyous. 7c Diminish; slow be "broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to...mainly bent on considering, not how the union should be preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people, when it shall be broken up and destroyed,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall I* broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang...depth of the abyss below ; nor could I regard him is a safe counsellor in the affairs of this government whoso thoughts should be mainly bent on considering,... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together, shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the union should be preserved, but, how tolerable might be the condition of the people, when it shall be broken up and... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us ainted witli may be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it should be broken... | |
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I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed... 
