 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...I must declare, that, for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...men, can stand in preference to the general Congress of Philadelphia. 2. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude... | |
 | 1842 - 546 pages
...the true significance of the Congress : " I trust," said he, " that your lordships are now convinced that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over this mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal." It was the Congress that made a nation... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 pages
...of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...men can stand in preference to the General Congress of Philadelphia." And when the question in relation to the employment of savages, which Doctor Johnson... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 378 pages
...for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand...preference to the general congress at Philadelphia." CHAPTER LXXXII. The dawn of liberty. 1. WHILE the king's troops remained in Boston, it was curious... | |
 | John Frost - 1844 - 494 pages
...for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such complication of circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand...preference to the general congress at Philadelphia." The appearance of things in Massachusetts was far from being auspicious. Soon after General Gage's... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 pages
...solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of diflicult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress of Philadelphia." And when the question in relation to the employment of savages, which Doctor Johnson... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 pages
...and reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of different circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand...your lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude on such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation — must be vain — must... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...I must declare, that, for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no...men, can stand in preference to the general Congress of Philadelphia.. '2. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 pages
...pursuit, that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under all the circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand...preference to the general congress at Philadelphia." A short recess in the month of August, enabled Mr. Lee to retire to his native state, but not to leisure... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - 1847 - 242 pages
...reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficulties, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress of Philadelphia."—Pitt. " On every side, sweet sunny spots of verdure smile towards him from among... | |
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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 — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom... 
