If this state of his, country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to... The Quarterly Review - Pagina 42geredigeerd door - 1841Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Augustin Cochin - 1863 - 438 pagina’s
...and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her in the course of a single life ! ' If this state of...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day." * Ah ! what would the immortal authors of American independence have said, in their turn, — what... | |
| Augustin Cochin - 1863 - 432 pagina’s
...and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her in the course of a single life ! ' If this state of...the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day.;; * Ah ! what would the immortal authors of American independence have said, in their turn, — what... | |
| Orator - 1864 - 186 pagina’s
...improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years,...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day ! KOSSUTH. [ROSSUTH, in his speech to the New York Militia, December 16th, ISM, pars the following... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pagina’s
...by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a scries of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day ! Excuse me, Sir, if, turning from such thoughts, I resume this comparative view once more. You have... | |
| Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 pagina’s
...of a single life! If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not have required all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid...vary the prospect and cloud the setting of his day." Let us suppose that on the evening of the day on which John Wesley expatiated with such a glow of enthusiasm... | |
| 1872 - 556 pagina’s
...gazing with admiration on the then commercial grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national...vary the prospect and cloud the setting of his day ! . . You cannot stationgarrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1873 - 430 pagina’s
...of its progress. He was in 1704 of an age, at least, to be made to comprehend such things.' . . . ' Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate,...vary the prospect and cloud the setting of his day.' Change Lord Bathurst for Sir Henry Holland : take the seventy-one years of the present century instead... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - 550 pagina’s
...improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years,...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day !" But, however reluctantly, in obedience to my duty I must now attend to a much less interesting character,... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pagina’s
...improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years,...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day! — Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775. 1 The parliamentary union of England and Scotland took... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pagina’s
...improvements, brought in by variety of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years,...shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of the day. Excuse me, sir, if turning from such thoughts I resume this comparative view once more. You... | |
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