 | Richard Henry Lee - 1825 - 318 pages
...to us from America,* when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you canitot but 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 of the world — that for solidity of reasoning,... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 606 pages
...transmitted 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 read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning,... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...transmitted 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,...read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world:) 2. I say I must declare, that, for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...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 T hueidydes,' and have studied and admired the muster-spirits of the world,)... | |
 | Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 520 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,...must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation—and it has been my favourite study; I have read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired... | |
 | 1834 - 404 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 declare and avow that in all my reading and observation—and it has been my favorite study—(I have read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - 1834 - 386 pages
...were brought before the British House of Lords, Lord Chatham passed upon them this noble eulogium — "For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and history has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...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 in all my reading of history, — and it has " been my favourite study ; I have read Thu" cydides and have admired the... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 628 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 Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 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 Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning,... | |
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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. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and... 
