 | Robert Taylor Conrad - Declaration of Independence - 1846 - 900 pages
...thus expressed himself: "When you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself,...must declare and avow, that in all my reading, and it has been my favourite pursuit, that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1848 - 208 pages
...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,...and it has been my favourite study — I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1848 - 626 pages
...Lords : ' When you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom,' said he, ' you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself,...must declare and avow, that in all my reading, and it has been my favorite pursuit, that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity and wisdom of conclusion,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 492 pages
...of Lords: " When you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom," said he, "you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself,...must declare and avow, that in all my reading, and it has been my favorite pursuit, that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity and wisdom of conclusion,... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, William W. Campbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 446 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,...all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study (I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master States of the world),... | |
 | 1851 - 560 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,...must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation—and it has been my favorite study—I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 572 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 history, — and it has " been my favourite study ; I have read Thu" cydides and have admired the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...transmitted us from America—when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you can iHjl but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself,...all my reading and observation— and it has been my favorite study—I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world—that... | |
 | Daniel Webster - History - 1852 - 66 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,...all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study, I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...us from America — when you conikter their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you can not but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, ihat in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides,... | |
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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... 
