 | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 páginas
...master-states of the world, — for solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion under a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation...preference to the general congress at Philadelphia. The histories of Greece and Kome give us nothing equal to it, and all attempts to impose servitude... | |
 | William Archer Cocke - 1858 - 442 páginas
...said, — " That for solidity of reasoning, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand...preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia." These sagacious men, looking abroad, saw that strength and support might be reckoned on and gathered... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 páginas
...my favourite study; I have " read Thucydides and have admired the master-states " of the world, — no nation or body of men can stand in " preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. " All attempts to impose servitude on such men, to esta" blish despotism over such a mighty Continent,... | |
 | William Massey - 1858 - 500 páginas
...reasoning, force of sagacity and wisdom of conclusion under such a complication of difficult cirumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia.' — Speech in the Lords, 2oth January, 1775. 202 PROCEEDINGS OF THE Ch. 1 8. it is probable that this... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 páginas
...fears and resentments ; — then they may trust you ; then you may hope for their love and gratitude. All attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over Buch a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shal'. be forced ultimately to retract... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 398 páginas
...of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust itis obvious to your lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 páginas
...of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion under CARPENTER'S HALL. •, r ,. c - , such a complication ot circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia.7 In all its proceedings Congress manifested decorum, firmness,8 moderation, 1 This name... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 páginas
...foree of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult cireumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia !" If Chatham did not take this view of the proceedings of the congress of Philadelphia out of eheer... | |
 | David W. Belisle - 1859 - 450 páginas
...force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no national body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia/' The next year the Assembly presented such an array of Tories, that it was impossible to elect delegates... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 páginas
...for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand...preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia." The Provincial Congress, assembled at tlje meeting-house in Concord, October 13, 1774, in a message... | |
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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 — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom... 
