| Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 pàgines
...men more cpnscientious in their doings, or simple in their manners, never founded any commonwealth. It is indeed the peculiar glory of North America,...few exceptions, its empire was originally founded in charity and peace."* " The new emigrants who, at various times, continued to flock to this extensive... | |
| 1834 - 424 pàgines
...in their doings and simple in their manners never founded a commonwealth. And," concludes he, "it is the peculiar glory of North America, that, with a...few exceptions, its empire was originally founded in charity and peace." It is a common fault in biography to magnify beyond all just proportion the merits... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 514 pàgines
...men more conscientious in their doings, or simple in their manners, never founded any commonwealth. It is indeed the peculiar glory of North America,...few exceptions, its empire was originally founded in charity and peace. Ibid. America deficient in the higher Branches of Literature. The Americans have... | |
| John Green (unitarian.) - 1862 - 278 pàgines
...more conscientious in their doings and simple in their manners never founded a commonwealth, And it is the peculiar glory of North America, that, with a...few exceptions, its empire was originally founded in charity and peace." And it is the glory of England that she gave birth to such men, and nurtured them,... | |
| 1834 - 426 pàgines
...in their doings and simple in their manners never founded a commonwealth. And," concludes he, "it is the peculiar glory of North America, that, with a...few exceptions, its empire was originally founded in charity and peace." It is a common fault in biography to magnify beyond all just proportion the merits... | |
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