 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
..." us from America, when you consider their decency, " firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their " cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself I " must declare and avow that in all my reading of his" tory, — and it has been my favourite study; I have " read Thucydides and have admired the... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1858 - 454 pages
...transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must avow, that in all my reading, — and I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master-state's... | |
 | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 pages
...transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must avow, that in all my reading, — and I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master-states... | |
 | GEORGE BANOROIT - 1858 - 450 pages
...transmitted us from, America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must avow, that in all my reading,—and I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master-states... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 498 pages
...transmitted to us from America; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master states of the world, I know not the people, or senate, who, in such a complication of difficult... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1860 - 524 pages
...transmitted us from America — when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself...declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — (I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-stated of the world) — that... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 816 pages
...firmness, and •wisdom, you cannot but respect their can*j and wish to make it your own. For m-yselC ' must declare and avow that in all my reading and observation, and it has been my to™"*? study — I have read Thucydides, and adrmrw the master states of the world— that for solidi?... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 560 pages
...the state documents of the General Congress at Philadelphia, Chatham, in the House of Lords, said: "For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation, — I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world, — that for... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 556 pages
...the state documents of the General Congress at Philadelphia, Chatham, in the House of Lords, said : " For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation, — I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world, — that for... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1861 - 812 pages
...transmitted to us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I juiist declare and avow that in all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite etudy —... | |
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When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and... 
