 | 1845 - 554 pages
...qu'il ne me penne ;" — Pm afraid he'll take me. When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America; when you consider their decency,...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides, and... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 pages
...immutable, eternal, fixed as the firmament of Heaven. When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you can not but respect their cause and wish to make it your own — for myself I must declare and avow... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 pages
...qu'il ne me penne ;" — I'm afraid he'll take me. When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you ci..not but respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself, 1 must declare and avow,... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 pages
...congress by the first Lord Chatham. Speaking in the house of lords, that nobleman thus expressed himself: "When you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom,...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading, and it has been my favourite pursuit, that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...transmitted •o us from America ; when you consider their decency, fivrn. Bess, and wisdom, you can not but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation, (and it has feeen my favorite study, I have read Thucydides, and have... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 pages
...peur,' replied Conde, very honestly, ' J'ai peur qu'il ne me prenne ;' — I'm afraid he'll take me. " When your Lordships look at the papers transmitted...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favourite study — I have read Thucydides, and... | |
 | 1848 - 742 pages
...Chatham, in the House of Lords : ' When you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom,' said he, ' you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading, and it has been my favorite pursuit, that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 492 pages
...Lord Chatham, in the House of Lords: " When you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom," said he, "you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading, and it has been my favorite pursuit, that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, William W. Campbell - 1849 - 446 pages
...emanated from the first Congress, and which drew forth the following panegyric from the great Chatham: " When your lordships look at the papers transmitted...own. For myself, 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...subject in the House of Lords, could not restrain his enthusiasm. " When your lordships," said he, "look at the papers transmitted to us from America...myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master states of the world, I know not the people, or senate, who, in such a complication of difficult circumstances,... | |
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When your lordships look at the papers 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. 
