 But if it be true, as we learn from history and experience, that free governments afford a soil most suitable to the production of native talent, to the maturing of the powers of the human mind, and to the growth of every species of excellence, by opening...  The Literary Panorama and National Register - Pagina 4691816Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Martin Lowther Clarke - 1983 - 274 pagina’s
...Elgin had carried on alone and without encouragement. The committee ended its report with these words: 'If it be true, as we learn from history and experience,...country can be better adapted than our own to afford an honourable asylum to these monuments of the school of Phidias and of the administration of Pericles;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 610 pagina’s
...who hnvc rendered inconsiderable states eminent, and immorlali/.cd their own names by these pursuits. But if it be true, as we learn from history and experience,...governments afford a soil most suitable to the production of unlive talent, to the maturing of the powers of the human mind, and to tliu growth of every species... | |
 | 1842 - 670 pagina’s
...there find the Elgin " spoliation" thus recorded, in the chronicles of our collective wisdom : — But if it be true, as we learn from history and experience, that fire« Governments afford a soiTmost suitable to the production of native talent, to the maturing of... | |
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