 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...favourite study — I have read Thucidydes and have studied and admired the master states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 378 pages
...favourite study— I have read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired the master- states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...favourite study — I have read Thucidydesj and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 160 pages
...favourite study, (I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world,) that, for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom- of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or hody of men can stand in preference to the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...favourite study, (I have read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired the master states of the world,) that, for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - History - 1817 - 314 pages
...readThucidydes, and have studied and admired the master-slates of the world :) I say I must declare, that, for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, uo nation, or body of men can sland in preference to the... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...and reasoning, force of sagacity, "id wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of différent circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congres« at Philadelphia. — 1 trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...solidity of reasoning, force of lagacity and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the ge r.eral congress at Philadelphia." Л brave-fellow. — Among numberless feats of valor performed... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - United States - 1825 - 318 pages
...favourite study, I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity,...nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the genera) . Congress at Philadelphia." * The 'memorial, address, and petition, were transmitted to the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
...declare, that he had studied and admired the free states of antiquity, the master states of the world, but that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, no body of men could stand in preference to this Congress. It is hardly inferior praise to say, that... | |
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I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom... 
