 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - America - 1872 - 530 pages
...avow that in all my reading and study— and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidit; of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such somplication of circumstances,... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 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, I must declare and avow that in all my reading of history — and it has been my favourite study — I have read Thucydides, and have admired the... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1903 - 474 pages
...Chatham on that occasion, 'when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself,...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.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 466 pages
...America," said Lord Chatham, " when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself,...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... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 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,...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... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - United States - 1903 - 478 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, I must avow, and I have studied the master states of the world, I know not the people, or senate, who, for... | |
 | Charles Morris - Orators - 1902 - 714 pages
...transmitted to us from America, when you consider their firmness, decency, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must affirm, declare, and avow that, in all my reading and observation (and it has been my favorite study,... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie - Sermons, American - 1904 - 264 pages
...us from America, when you consider their decency, their firmness, their wisdom, you can 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 reason,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1904 - 768 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 masterstates of the world) — that for... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 1358 pages
...the respect of the best European critics. Lord Chatham said in the House of Lords on 20 Jan. 1775, "I 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 the master-states of the world... | |
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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... 
