 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 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... | |
 | William Vincent Wells - United States - 1865 - 534 pages
...urged the repeal of the acts, pronounced a grand panegyric on the late Continental Congress, whose solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion under such a complication of difficult circumstances no nation or body of men could, in his opinion, excel. To... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1867 - 624 pages
...my favourite study — I have read Thucydides, and have 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 Lincoln Brandt - Anglo-Saxon race - 1915 - 264 pages
...Pitt declared, "That for solidity of reason, for force of sagacity, wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men, can stand in preference." The mighty Mirabeau of France, in his address in the National Assembly, passed a most eloquent eulogy... | |
 | Esther Singleton - World history - 1916 - 358 pages
...observation — (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... | |
 | Eleanor E. Riggs - United States - 1916 - 576 pages
...wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion — no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia." Edmund... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Claude Halstead Van Tyne - United States - 1916 - 250 pages
...and Burke and some of the greatest of English statesmen were eager to conciliate America Pitt thought that " for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and 'wisdom of conclusion no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia." Behind Pitt... | |
 | Charles Altschul - Textbooks - 1917 - 176 pages
...wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion — no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia". Later,... | |
 | Charles Altschul - Textbooks - 1917 - 186 pages
...observation . . . that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion . . . no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the Congress at Philadelphia. I trust that it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose... | |
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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... 
