 | English authors - 1869 - 458 strani
...wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quod felix faustumque sit) — lay the first stone... | |
 | George Perkins - 1869 - 60 strani
...wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. APPENDIX. Or. — There are five Latin particles by which this word may under various circumstances... | |
 | 1872 - 556 strani
...wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the...it is ; English privileges alone will make it all that it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quodfelix faustumqne sit} lay... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 strani
...in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American...English privileges alone will make it all it can be ! ENTERPRISE OF AMERICAN COLONISTS, 1775. Burke. Burke, the greatest of Irish statesmen, and unsurpassed... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 strani
...which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. . . . Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American...it is ; English privileges alone will make it all that it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I lay the first stone of the temple of... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 strani
...wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. THE DECAY OF CHIVALROUS SENTIMENT, t IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 strani
...wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and th« only honorable conquests, he full extent of all the powers which it could abuse, and In full confidence of this unalterable truth, 1 now (quod fclix fauilumque lit)" lay the first stone... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 strani
...wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive and the most honourable conquests, not by destroying but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. * This is one of those beautiful allusions to the Scriptures with which Mr. Burke often adorned his... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 strani
...wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying but by promoting the wealth, the...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. BURKE: Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775. Parliament, from a mere representative... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 strani
...wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quod felix faustumque sff) lay the first stone... | |
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... We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the... 
