| Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1807 - 312 pages
...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. For myself,...all my reading and observation, (and it has been my favorite study : I have read Thucidyd«8, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...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. For myself, I must declare and avow, that all my reading and observation — and history has CHAP, been my favourite study, — all that I have... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...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,...and it has been my favourite study — I have read Thucidydesj and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning,... | |
| Caleb Bingham - Elocution - 1811 - 316 pages
...to us from America; when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot buf * respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself,...observation, (and it has been my favourite study: I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states ot the world:) I say I must declare, that,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...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,...observation — and it has been my favourite study — I bave read Thucydides, and have studied . •"• admired the master-states of the world— 'bat ioT4\''(''ly... | |
| Caleb Bingham - History - 1817 - 314 pages
...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. For myself,...observation, (and it has been my favourite study : I have readThucidydes, and have studied and admired the master-slates of the world :) I say I must declare,... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...CHATHAM thus expressed himself, when ipeaking in parliament, of the congress that declared independence. "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,... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
..."У that "1еУ can ïlienlte hiï *ubJects my reading and observation, and it has been my fi»orite study — I have read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired the master states of the world —th»t for solidity and reasoning, force of sagacity, "id wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...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 I must dec lure and avow that, in all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study — I... | |
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