 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' s Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Domenico Alberto Azuni - 1806 - 462 pagina’s
...dexterous and firm sagacity " of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of " hardy industry, to the extent to which it has been pushed...are still, as it were, but in " the gristle, and not hardened into the bone of manhood." Burke's Speech, for conciliation u'Hli tie American colonies. —... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pagina’s
...line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantick game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pagina’s
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pagina’s
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pagina’s
...national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place m the progress of their victorious industry. Nor it the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pagina’s
...this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent N people; a people who are still, as it were, but in...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Barent Gardenier - 1814 - 442 pagina’s
...ourselves ? When in our infancy ; when, to use the language of one of our warmest friends, " we were in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood," with a government weak and disorganized-; a people distracted ; without .funds; without resources,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 pagina’s
...individual not very aged may reach hack to the time, when we were, as Mr. Burke described us, ' a people but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood ;' that before that time, little literary labor was to be expected from the poor and hardy adventurers... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1823 - 300 pagina’s
...industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, who are still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." In the beginning of the eighteenth century, the export trade of Great Britain to her American colonies,... | |
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... but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints... 
