| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...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...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships,... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 378 pages
...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...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships,... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...been my favourite study — I have read Thucidydesj and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the genera] Congress at Philadelphia. I 'trust it is obvious to your Lordships,... | |
| Caleb Bingham - Elocution - 1811 - 316 pages
...have studied and admired the master-states ot the world:) I say I must declare, that, for solidity and reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion,...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...falsely charged on her. He disclaims all metaphysical distinctions. The Declaratory Act leaves you and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no latino or body of men, can stand in preference 1o tlu, general Congress at Philadelphia. I tru« il... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...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...difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia."f The convulsions, devastations, and horrors... | |
| DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 160 pages
...in all my reading and ohservation, — and it has heen my favourite study, (I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of...complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or hody of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.''! The convulsiftns, devastations,... | |
| Caleb Bingham - History - 1817 - 314 pages
...readThucidydes, and have studied and admired the master-slates of the world :) I say I must declare, that, for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity,...under such a complication of difficult circumstances, uo nation, or body of men can sland in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...studied and admired the master state« of the world, but for solidity of reasoning, force of lagacity and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication...difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the ge r.eral congress at Philadelphia." Л brave-fellow. — Among numberless... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...read Thucidydes, and h»ve studied and admired the master stales of the world —that for solidity and reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of different circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at... | |
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