 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of manhood," been achieved, in this respect, since the declaration of independence. Nor is the progress less remarkable... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1850 - 350 pages
...the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." less than pierced polar ices and circumnavigated the globe itself almost monthly. Such a spirit has... | |
 | 1851 - 162 pages
...inherited all your indomitable love of liberty and all your insatia>ble passion for power. Though still in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood, America will, within the short period of sixteen months, cast off your dominion and defy your utmost... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent People ; a People who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of manhood. When I contemplate these things, — when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things — when I know that the colonies in general owe liltle or nothing... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - History - 1852 - 476 pages
...hazards of resistance ? — The untried, and not to be estimated perils of civil war ; — "a people in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood," to rush on the thick tosses of the buckler of the most powerful State in Europe, the one most capable... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent People ; a People who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of manhood. When I contemplate these things, — when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 pages
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people—a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things—when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things — when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing... | |
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Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people... 
