 | John William Draper - 1868 - 628 pages
...triumph over the helpless, to trample on every law of country and custom, willfully to violate all the most sacred interests of human nature, to defy...away—these are the virtues of the race which presumes to offer itself as the leader of civilization and the prophet of human progress in these latter days.... | |
 | John William Draper - 1868 - 630 pages
...triumph over the helpless, to trample on every law of country and custom,, willfully to violate all the most sacred interests of human nature, to defy...as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to offer itself as the leader of civilization... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1874 - 1956 pages
...triumph over the helpless, to trample on every law of country and custom, willfully to violate all the most sacred interests of human nature, to defy...as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumed to announce itself as the leader of civilization... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1880 - 664 pages
...danger does not appear, and, as soon as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce...of human progress in these latter days. By Captain Wilkes let the Yankee breed be judged." Other publications, of higher and lower character than the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 764 pages
...type of a people in whose foul mission he is engaged. He is an ideal Yankee. Swagger and ferocity, built upon a foundation of vulgarity and cowardice...as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run awayj — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce itself as the leader of civilization... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1878 - 722 pages
...type of a people in whose foul mission he is engaged. He is an ideal Yankee. Swagger and ferocity, built upon a foundation of vulgarity and cowardice...as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce itself as the leader of civilization... | |
 | Thomas Le Grand Harris - 1896 - 392 pages
...triumph over the helpless, to trample on every law of country and custom, willfully to violate all the most sacred interests of human nature, to defy...as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce itself as the leader of civilization... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1913 - 208 pages
...to triumph over the helpless, to trample on every law of country and custom, wilfully to violate all the most sacred interests of human nature, to defy...as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce itself as the leader of civilization... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1913 - 196 pages
...danger does not appear, and, as soon as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce...of human progress in these latter days. By Captain Wilkes let the Yankee breed be judged." One knows not which to admire most, the moderation of this... | |
 | Frederick Franklin Schrader - 1920 - 266 pages
...said: "To bully the weak, to triumph over the helpless, to trample on every law of country and customs, wilfully to violate the most sacred interests of human...as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce itself as the leader of civilization... | |
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... the most sacred interests of human nature, to defy as long as danger does not appear, and, as soon as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce itself as the leader of civilization... 
