 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 528 strani
...reading and observation — (I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-stated of the world) — that for solidity of reasoning,...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... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 562 strani
...deciare and avow, that in all my reading and observation, — I have read Thucydides, and have stndied and admired the master states of the world, — that...solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conciusion, under such complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 strani
...declare that he had studied and admired the free states of antiquity; the master states of the world, but that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, no body of men could stand in preference to this Congress. It is hardly inferior praise to say, that... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 358 strani
...reading and observation — (I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world) — that for solidity of reasoning,...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... | |
 | James Montgomery Beck - 1916 - 354 strani
...statesman of the English empire, said: I must declare and avow that in all my reading and study, and I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired...the master States of the world, that for solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no... | |
 | Eleanor E. Riggs - 1916 - 576 strani
...wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare that 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." Edmund... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1916 - 250 strani
...and Burke and some of the greatest of English statesmen were eager to conciliate America Pitt thought that " 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." Behind Pitt... | |
 | Charles Altschul - 1917 - 176 strani
...wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare — that 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". Later,... | |
 | James Hosmer Penniman - 1918 - 58 strani
...myself, I must declare and avow that in all my reading and observation — and history has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides, and have...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... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - 1918 - 632 strani
...been my favourite study — I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the General Congress... | |
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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... 
