 Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy...  The Works of Daniel Webster... - Page 29by Daniel Webster - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 pages
...admiration for one of the happiest efforts of eloquence, so often as the vision of " that little speok, scarce visible in the mass of national interest, a...formed body," and the progress of its astonishing develop. ID cut and grow th, sire recalled to the recollection. But a stronger feeling might be produced,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should pomt out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body, and should tell Mm—'Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body, and should tell him — ' Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body, and should tell him, ' Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 424 pages
...of Eng'land the Genius should point out to him a little speck, ' scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small 'seminal principle rather than a formed body, and should ' tell him : ' Young man , there is America , which at this day ' ' serves for little more than... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1855 - 600 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pages
...embryo. But yesterday — to use the language which Mr. Burke once applied to America — it was " a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of national...small seminal principle, rather than a formed body." To-day, it presents itself to us an established commonwealth, and is knocking at our doors for admittance... | |
 | 1857 - 402 pages
...absorbed in the commercial grandeur of England, to " a little speck scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body," and as saying to him : " Young man, there is Jlmerica; which, at this day, serves for little more than... | |
 | John Shaw (M.D.) - 1857 - 324 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body, and should tell him — ' Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to... | |
 | 1857 - 830 pages
...absorbed in the commercial grandeur of England, to ' a little speck scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body,' and as saying to him, ' Young man, there is America ; which, at this day, serves for little more than to... | |
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