 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 710 pagina’s
...science," ' is met with the following animated rejoinder : " ' America has not yet produced one good poet.1 When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shnkspeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 726 pagina’s
..." ' America has not yet produced one good poet.' When we shall have eiisted as a people as long us the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans...Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and MiHca. should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes it has proceeded,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 698 pagina’s
...science," ' is met with the following animated rejoinder : " ' America has not yet produced one good poet.' When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans . Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and Milton, should this reproach... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 642 pagina’s
...science." Hist. Philos. p. 92, ed. Maestricht, 1774. " America has riot yet produced one good poet." When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the Euglish a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pagina’s
...exultation." This compliment was elicited by Mr. Jefferson's remark— "When we shall have exisb-d as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and Milton;... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 704 pagina’s
...science," ' is met with the following animated rejoinder : " ' America has not yet produced one good poet.' When we shall have existed as a people as long as...true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes it hxs proc'ieded, that the other countries of Europe and quarters of the earth shall not have inscribed... | |
 | Biological Society of Washington - 1888 - 180 pagina’s
...mathematicien, un homme de genie dans un seul art ou un seule science." " When we shall have existed a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach still be true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1890 - 958 pagina’s
...poet, one able mathematician, one man of genius in a single art or a single science," Jefferson says : "When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1890 - 574 pagina’s
...poet, one able mathematician, one man of genius in a single art or a single science," Jefferson says : "When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 pagina’s
...science.' 7. Hist. Philos. pa. 92, edn. Maestricht, 1774. 'America has not yet produced one good poet.' When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
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When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly... 
