 When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him...  Reminiscences of Congress - Pagina 135di Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 295 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | James Locke Batchelder - 1866 - 64 pagine
...elements have driven him from his true courfe. Let us imitate this prudence, and before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at leaft be able to conjecture where we now are. I afk for the reading of the Refolution." Can anything... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pagine
...storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence ; and before \ve float further, on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that wo... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1867 - 208 pagine
...elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate that prudence, and before we float farther, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are." In his speech at Springfield, a singularly clear, terse, profound, and... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1868 - 232 pagine
...elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from...which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are.': The departure from the law of the Constitution, the original standards... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 pagine
...elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate that prudence, and before we float further, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are." That is a stately and sonorous opening, majestic and poetical. Now compare... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 606 pagine
...elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate that prudence, and before we float further, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are." That is a stately and sonorous opening, majestic and poetical. Now compare... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1868 - 228 pagine
...storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1868 - 226 pagine
...Btorm, the" earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 392 pagine
...storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1870 - 204 pagine
...storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this...which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are. I ask for the reading of the resolution. * * * * * * We have thus heard,... | |
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