| American essays - 1886 - 910 pages
...composition of one of the most memorable assemblies the world has ever seen. Mr. Gladstone says that just " as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism...Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Let us now see who the men were who did this wonderful... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1088 pages
...to say, with Mr. Gladstone, that 'just as the British constitution is the most subtle organism that has proceeded from progressive history, so the American...constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.' Given a certain number of existing and cherished... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - Great Britain - 1879 - 278 pages
...the one the offspring of tendency and indeterminate time, the other of choice and of an epoch. But, as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - 1879 - 268 pages
...the one the offspring of tendency and indeterminate time, the other of choice and of an epoch. But, as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as... | |
| Texas Bar Association - Bar associations - 1882 - 348 pages
...race, they decided wisely and well, and our glorious Constitution is the result. Mr. Gladstone said: "As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism...Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." To this let me add the solemn admonition of Thomas... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 532 pages
...CONSTITUTION OP THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. II. "As the British Constitution is the most subtile organism which has proceeded from progressive history,...Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man."—William E. Gladstone. / HISTORY OP THE FORMATION... | |
| Rev. Henry Mason Baum - 1882 - 924 pages
...England as a motto for the sub-title of his volumes: "As the British Constitution is the most subtile organism which has proceeded from progressive history,...Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose <:' man." We give the concluding paragraph of the present... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Ethics - 1883 - 324 pages
...reached."— New York Evening Express. D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1, 3, & 5 BOND STBEET, NEW Tons. " The American Constitution is the most wonderful work...by the brain and purpose of man" — WE GLADSTONE. HISTORY OF TMK Formation of the Constitution OF THB UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By GEORGE BANCROFT. Uniform... | |
| Alexander Pope Humphrey - Northwest, Old - 1884 - 36 pages
...the settlement and government of the Northwestern States." Of the Constitution Gladstone has said, "As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism...Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Of these great charters of freedom, two were ordained... | |
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