 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 pages
...or contemptible and miserable as a nation. This is the time of their political probation ; this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them ; this is the time to establish or ruin their national character for ever ; this is the favorable moment to give... | |
 | John Warner Barber - United States - 1860 - 478 pages
...or contemptible and miserable as a nation. This is the time of their political probation ; this is the moment, when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them; this is the time to establish or ruin their national character for ever; this is the favourable moment to give... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...absolute freedom and independency.' This is the time," said he, "of their political probation: this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them ; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character forever. This is the favorable moment to give such a tone... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...or contemptible and miserable, as a nation. This Is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character forever; this Is the favorable moment to give such a tone... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...happy, the fault will be entirely their own This is the time of their political probation ; this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them ; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever." He then goes on to describe what he considers... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...or contemptible and miserable as a nation. This is the time of their political probation : this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them : this is the time to establish or ruin their national character forever : this is the favorable moment to give such... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...prosperous, or contemptible and miserable as a nation. This is the time of their political probation: this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them: this is the time to establish or ruin their national character forever: this is the favorable moment to give such... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 1010 pages
...independency.' " This is the time," said he, " of their political probation ; this is the moment when the «yes of the whole world are turned upon them ; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever. This is the favorable moment to give such a tone... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Democracy - 1885 - 462 pages
...absolute freedom and independence, he added— " This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever." Lest they should allow the mutual jealousies... | |
 | United States - 1886 - 190 pages
...or contemptible and miserable, as a nation. This is the time of their political probation ; this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them ; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character forever; this is the favorable moment to give such a tone... | |
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This is the time of their political probation ; this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them ; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character... 
