 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...and simplicity of language, — for everything respectable and honorable, — they stand unrivalled. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships that all attempts...despotism over such a mighty Continental Nation, must be vain, must be fatal. This wise People speak out. They do not hold the language of slaves. They tell... | |
 | M. Murray - United States - 1852 - 454 pages
...spoke of the dignity, the firmness and the 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."... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while wo can, not... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conelusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia. 8. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all...despotism over such a mighty + continental nation, must be vain; must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 418 pages
...been my favourite study ; I have read Thucydides and have admired the master-states of the world, — no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. All attempts to impose servitude on such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty Continent,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...niy favourite study ; I have " read Thucydides and have admired the master-states " of the world, — no nation or body of men can stand in " preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. " All attempts to impose servitude on such men, to esta" blish despotism over such a mighty Continent,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...my favourite study ; I have " read Thucydides and have admired the master-states " of the world, — no nation or body of men can stand in " preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. " All attempts to impose servitude on such men, to esta" blish despotism over such a mighty Continent,... | |
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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... 
