 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 pages
...their memory, but they comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an ideal which was at least as...industrial, and pacific empire, comprising the whole English race, holding the richest plains of Asia in subjection, blending all that was most venerable... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1893 - 524 pages
...account of the Works, ii. 350, 410. was at least as worthy as that for which Washington fought. It was the maintenance of one free, industrial, and pacific empire, comprising the whole English race, holding the richest plains of Asia in subjection, blending all that was most venerable... | |
 | Henry Ferguson - 1894 - 224 pages
...their memory, but they comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an ideal which was at least as...industrial and pacific empire, comprising the whole English race, may have been a dream, but it was at least a noble one." History of England in the Eighteenth... | |
 | 1895 - 534 pages
...their memory, but they comprised some oí the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an ideal which was, at least, as worthy as that for which Washington had fought." The existence of French Canada is no bar to the federation of the Empire. It is the boast... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1896 - 518 pages
...comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an idea which was at least as worthy as that for which Washington...industrial, and pacific empire, comprising the whole English-speaking race, may have been a dream, but it was at least a noble one." 1 Such a declaration... | |
 | Daniel Dulany Addison - 1897 - 382 pages
...their ability as men and their sincerity as Tories, and their greatness of thought in striving for " the maintenance of one free industrial and pacific empire, comprising the whole English-speaking race." l That the Tories had in mind the strengthening and perpetuation of a great... | |
 | United Empire Loyalists' Association of Ontario - 1897 - 334 pages
...ideal was has perhaps never been better formulated than in the words of the historian Lecky : " It was the maintenance of one free industrial and pacific empire comprising the whole English race, holding the richest plains of Asia in subjection, blending all that was most venerable... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1898 - 546 pages
...410. CH. M. AMERICAN LOYALISTS. 193 was at least as worthy as that for which Washington fought. It was the maintenance of one free, industrial, and pacific empire, comprising the whole English race, holding the richest plains of Asia in subjection, blending all that was most venerable... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 596 pages
...generations to outstrip every competitor and acquire an indisputable ascendency on the globe. Such an ideal may have been a dream, but it was at least a noble one, and there were Americans who were prepared to make any personal sacrifices rather than assist... | |
 | Bernard Holland - 1901 - 432 pages
...American loyalist minority " comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an ideal which was at least as worthy as that for which Washington fought. It was the maintenance of one free, industrial, and pacific empire, comprising the whole English race,... | |
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... some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an ideal which was at least as worthy as that for which Washington fought. 
