 | Daniel Webster - 1850 - 64 pagina’s
...dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am loqking out for no fragment upon which to float away from...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of all ; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1850 - 52 pagina’s
...surrounding dangers, but not withont hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, but fot the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole ; and there is that which will keep me... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1852 - 60 pagina’s
...man, but as an American, and as a member of the Senate of the United States. «He felt," he said, « that he had a duty to perform, a part to act, not...honor. By a singular felicity of fortune, Mr. Webster became, the second time, the principal instrument of a deliverance as signal as any which has occurred... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1853 - 390 pagina’s
...man, but as an American, and as a member of the Senate of the United States. ' He felt,' he said, ' that he had a duty to perform, a part to act, not...float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, 198 THE RESULT. but for the good of the whole, for the preservation of the Union.' It has turned out... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 566 pagina’s
...existing dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of all ; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | Jacob S. Denman - 1853 - 158 pagina’s
...dangers, and not without hope. I have a part to act ; not for my own security and safety — for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck is to ensue — but for the good of- the whole, and the preservation of the whole. I speak to-day for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 554 pagina’s
...surrounding dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | Ivory Chamberlain - 1856 - 230 pagina’s
...would neither shrink from his duty nor abandon hope. " I am looking out for no fragment," he says, " upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole; and there is that which will keep me to my duty during this struggle,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 648 pagina’s
...dangers, but not •without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away...wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole; and there is that which will keep mo to my duty during this struggle,... | |
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I mean to perform it with fidelity, not without a sense of existing dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must... 
