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  • From where I sit typing, I can see across the quad to the space between Hunter Hall and Old Ivy through which visitors must pass on their way to the dorms or Daniel Webster Hall, where visitors are entertained by students in one of the parlors.†  (source)
  • Cannon boomed from Mount Wollaston, bells rang, and the procession that carried the casket from the Adams house to the church included the governor, the president of Harvard, members of the state legislature, and Congressman Daniel Webster.†  (source)
  • Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster believed that this compromise would heal the rapidly growing breach between the North and the South.†  (source)
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  • Daniel Webster preferred to risk his career and his reputation rather than risk the Union.†  (source)
  • Tappan's first choice was Daniel Webster, the best known and perhaps most respected lawyer in the nation.†  (source)
  • "And, if I am, I'll still be Daniel Webster," said Dan'l.†  (source)
  • The mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of it, made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the most "eloquent" thing he had ever listened to, and that Daniel Webster himself might well be proud of it.†  (source)
  • —REPORT OF DANIEL WEBSTER'S SPEECH IN THE U. S. SENATE, ON THE APPLICATION FOR THE ERECTION OF A BREAKWATER AT NANTUCKET.†  (source)
  • They had died "amid the hosannas and grateful benedictions of a numerous, happy, and joyful people," and on the nation's fiftieth birthday, which, said Daniel Webster in a speech in Boston, was "proof" from on high "that our country, and its benefactors, are objects of His care."†  (source)
  • His story is told in Chapter V. III — Daniel Webster.†  (source)
  • Lewis Tappan had appealed to the new Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, to see if the President could be persuaded to provide transportation to the tribesmen anyway.†  (source)
  • How could Henry Clay then hope to win approval to such a plan from Daniel Webster of Massachusetts?†  (source)
  • Daniel Webster dryly commented, "As he has already done to his friends.†  (source)
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