 | Edmund Burke - 1919 - 328 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 136 páginas
...bodies, and the privilege of petitioning for a redress of grievances. Of this body William Pitt said: " 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." Burke had entered... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 páginas
...polities', no idle contest for ministerial victories', sank him to the vulgar level of the great. 5. For solidity of reasoning', force of sagacity', and wisdom of conclusion', no nation or body of men can compare with the Congress at Philadelphia. 6. The wise and the foolish',... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson - 1925 - 302 páginas
...1775, "when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause . . . 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 in Philadephia." It has become... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 páginas
...task. More than once but for his wisdom, patience, sympathy, and fortitude, the Cause must have failed. "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." So Chatham... | |
 | Silas Bent - 1927 - 440 páginas
...study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master statesmen 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 Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 páginas
...study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master statesmen 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... | |
 | 1861 - 810 páginas
...himself he must declare that ho had studied and admired the free states of antiquity, the master states of the world ; but that for solidity of reasoning,...conclusion, no body of men could stand in preference to the Congress of Philadelphia. Whatever may be the future of America, the past is safe. The confederates... | |
 | Philadelphia Bar Association - 1906 - 516 páginas
...read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world), I say I must declare 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 could stand in preference... | |
 | 1889 - 510 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... | |
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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... 
