| Basil Williams - 1913 - 450 páginas
...admired the masterstates of the world, it has been my favourite study, but I must declare and avow 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 of Philadelphia. With a dignity... | |
| 1913 - 428 páginas
...commercial relations with the mother country. The British minister, William Pitt, wrote of that congress: "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 of Philadelphia. ' ' Henceforth... | |
| 1914 - 594 páginas
...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 of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference... | |
| Marion Mills Miller - 1916 - 500 páginas
...force. Lord Chatham declared that he had studied the constitutions of the ancient democracies, "yet for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and...of men could stand in preference to this Congress." The speeches made in this, the most important national assembly in our country's history (for it made... | |
| Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1916 - 250 páginas
...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... | |
| Eleanor E. Riggs - 1916 - 576 páginas
...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 Burke... | |
| Esther Singleton - 1916 - 358 páginas
...observation — (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 of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference... | |
| Charles Altschul - 1917 - 176 páginas
...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, by the... | |
| James Hosmer Penniman - 1918 - 58 páginas
...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 of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference... | |
| Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 páginas
...favourite 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 of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference... | |
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