 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1851 - 546 pages
...— for he had " read Thucydides, and had studied and admired the master " states of the world — for solidity of reasoning, force of saga"city, and...complication of "circumstances, no nation or body of men could stand in "preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. "t The Provincial Assembly of New-... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...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 of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...favorite study ; I have read Thucydide*, 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 circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...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 of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...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 body of men, can stand in preference to the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 634 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - History - 1852 - 66 pages
...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 of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...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 of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...observation — I have read Thueydides, 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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...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 of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the... | |
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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... 
