| Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 páginas
...complication of difficult circumstances, can stand in preference to 4 the delegates of America assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious...lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be futile. Can... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - 1858 - 610 páginas
...necessary for the safety and comfort of can stand in preference to the delegates of America assembled in general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious...lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be in vain-—must be futile."... | |
| William Archer Cocke - 1858 - 444 páginas
...body, said,—" That for solidity of reasoning, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand...preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia." These sagacious men, looking abroad, saw that strength and support might be reckoned on and gathered... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 424 páginas
...my favourite study; I have read Thucydides and have admired the master-states ' of the world,—no nation or body of men can stand in ' preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. ' All attempts to impose servitude on such men, to esta" blish despotism over such a mighty Continent,... | |
| Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 398 páginas
...study—I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and...lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We... | |
| Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 398 páginas
...study—I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and...lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. "We... | |
| Charles Altschul - 1917 - 186 páginas
...148: Pitt told Parliament, "For solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusions under a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation...preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia." Plans for conciliation were urged in Parliament by him and by Burke. But all their efforts proved vain,... | |
| James Montgomery Beck - 1917 - 420 páginas
...Thucydides and have studied and admired the master States of the world, that for solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia.... | |
| James Hosmer Penniman - 1918 - 58 páginas
...study—I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master States of the world—that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and...preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia." Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, who speaks with authority about Washington, says "of all the fiction and of all... | |
| Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - 1918 - 632 páginas
...study—I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world —that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and...men, can stand in preference to the General Congress of Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships that all attempts to impose But it is not... | |
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