 | 1878 - 590 páginas
...Free States of Antiquity, the master spirits of the world, yet, for solidity of reasoning, force of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand...preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia." After leaving the Independence Hall, which is the great attraction of a visit to the city of Penn,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1874 - 706 páginas
...for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the General Congress in Philadelphia." Torjism was so rife in the New York Assembly the next year, that delegates to the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 432 páginas
...1775, Chatham declared that 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." 1 1 Journals of Congress, I., 23-26; MacDonald, Select Charters, 362-367. 1Journals of Congress, I.,... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - 1918 - 632 páginas
...of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...men, can stand in preference to the General Congress of Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon... | |
 | Joseph A. Osgoode - 1918 - 232 páginas
...masterstates of the world—that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...men can stand in preference to the general Congress of Philadelphia." "Mr. Speaker," said Burke, in his Speech on Conc\l\Ation With America, "I cannot... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 páginas
...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the General Congress of Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships that all attempts to impose 20 servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation must be vain,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1919 - 328 páginas
...of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...men, can stand in preference to the General Congress of Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships that all attempts to impose SPEECHES OF WILLIAM... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 136 páginas
...this body William Pitt said: " For solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia." Burke had entered the fight on behalf of America with a speech against the Stamp Act which he delivered... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb - 1921 - 616 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 Rome give us nothing equal to it, and all attempts to impose servitude... | |
 | George Alexander Ballard - 1923 - 390 páginas
...point of outbreak after a period of constantly increasing friction, he observed in the House of Lords that "all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty nation must be vain, must be fatal." Moreover, his attitude was inspired by sympathy as well as by... | |
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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... 
