...ourselves ? When in our infancy ; when, to use the language of one of our warmest friends, " we were in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood," with a government weak and disorganized-; a people distracted ; without .funds; without resources,...

...individual not very aged may reach hack to the time, when we were, as Mr. Burke described us, ' a people but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood ;' that before that time, little literary labor was to be expected from the poor and hardy adventurers...

...No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still,...

...no climate that is not witness to her toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, who...

...of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. NAVAL ANNALS. June 18, The Orders in Council, though ostensibly a 1812. belligerent retaliation on...

...the dextrous and firm sagucity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hirdy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...this recent people; a people who are still, as it ere, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things;...

...of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to whieh it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle,...

...Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, erer carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to- the extent to whidi it has heen pushed hy this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle,...

...extent to which it has been pushed by t)<is recent people; a people who are still, as it were, bin in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to...

...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...recent people — a people who are still as it were in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." * This splendid eulogium on the enterprise...