 Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference...  The Eclectic Review - Page 379edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such complication of circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia." The appearance of things in- Massachusetts was far from being auspicious. Soon after General Gage's... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 594 pages
...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 of Philadelphia." On the 8th of April, 1777, Congress, by resolution, ordered " that a monument be... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...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 of Philadelphia." On the 8th of April, 1777, Congress, by resolution, ordered " that a monument be... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 606 pages
...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 of Philadelphia." On the 8th of April, 1777, Congress, by resolution, ordered "that a monument be erected... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1852 - 66 pages
...force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...of ns. force of sagacity, and wisdom of conn. under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious lo your Lordship-s that all attempts to impose servitude, upon such men. to establish... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon - - h men, to establish... | |
 | M. Murray - 1852 - 454 pages
...wisdom with which the Americans had acted, and added, " I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts to impose servitude on such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be futile." In America the proceedings of the congress were... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 pages
...in all my reading of his" tory, — and it has been niy favourite study ; I have " read Thucydides and have admired the master-states " of the world,..." All attempts to impose servitude on such men, to esta" blish despotism over such a mighty Continent, must be " vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced... | |
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