 | Robert Purviance - Baltimore (Md.) - 1849 - 250 pages
...which of right, may be adopted by independent nations : — A congress, as described by Lord Chatham, " for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...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 of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...congress, which extended even to England. Lord Chatham, speaking of them in the House of Lords, said, that " for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such complication of circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1851 - 546 pages
...— for he had " read Thucydides, and had studied and admired the master " states of the world — for solidity of reasoning, force of saga"city, and wisdom of conclusion, under such complication of "circumstances, no nation or body of men could stand in "preference to the General... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 634 pages
...declare that he had studied and admired the free states of antiquity, the master states of the world, but that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, no body of men could stand in preference to this Congress. It is hardly inferior praise to say, that... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...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...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at... | |
 | Daniel Webster - History - 1852 - 66 pages
...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...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...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...wisdom of conclusion, under such a "'" complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — I have read Thueydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the General Congress... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...been my favourite study — I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the General Congress... | |
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Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference... 
