 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...  Specimens of Argumentation: Mondern - עמוד 191893 - 178 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 דפים
...your Lordships look at the papers transmitted " us from America, when you consider their decency^ " firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their " cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself 1 " must declare and avow that in all my reading of his" tory, — and it has been niy favourite study... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 דפים
...When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America ; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their...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... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 דפים
...When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America ; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 424 דפים
..."from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, "and wisdom, you cannot but respect thpir cause, and wish " to make it your own. For myself I must declare and avow "that in all my reading of history, — and it has been my "favourite study; I have read Thucydides and have ad" mired the... | |
 | 1854 - 576 דפים
...your Lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America, — when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, — you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. I must declare and avow, that, in the master States of the world, I kuow not the People nor the Senate,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 דפים
...lordships,' he said, ' look at the papers transmitted to us from America ; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom ; you cannot but respect their...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... | |
 | Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 412 דפים
...your lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America ; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their...observation (and it has been my favorite study, I have read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world), I say I must declare, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 566 דפים
...and Diary of J. Adanu, vob. ii. and ir. t Letter to William Tudor, 29th Sept., 1774. their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their...own. For myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master states of the world, I know not the people, or senate, who, in such a complication of difficult... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 436 דפים
...your lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America ; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their...to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and »vow that in all my reading and observation (and it has been my fovorite study, I have read Thucidydes,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 516 דפים
...as a company of demigods ; and William Pitt, the great Earl of Chatham, exclaimed, " I must déchire that in all my reading and observation — and it...been my favorite study : I have read Thucydides, and meditated the rise of the master states of the world — for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity,... | |
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