| 1868 - 858 pages
...for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand...preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.' When war between the mother-country and the colonies became inevitable, Lee was placed on the committees... | |
| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 pages
...the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation,...preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish... | |
| 1870 - 958 pages
...world, — that, for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under euch a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation...preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia." At the same time, in general literature and arts, America, so far from obtaining the commendation of... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1870 - 460 pages
...for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusions, under such a complication of circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the Congress at Philadelphia." It was in a congress composed of such men that Washington distinguished... | |
| 1925 - 434 pages
...firmness and wisdom," he said, "you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. . . . No nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia." The Revolution had been in progress for over a year, during which the sentiment for separation from England... | |
| Frederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson - 1925 - 302 pages
...but respect their cause . . . 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 in Philadephia." It has become fashionable to represent the most shining example of this kind as somewhat... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 pages
...the Cause must have failed. "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." So Chatham had declared a few months before. When Jefferson joined this Assembly, justly famous in... | |
| Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 pages
...the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation...preference to the general congress at Philadelphia." CHAPTER V The Clash of Metropolis and Colony CoNCERNING the origin of the American Revolution there... | |
| 1927 - 368 pages
...reading and observation that for solidity of reasoning, force of segacity and wisdom of conclusion, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the Congress at Philadelphia." And Charles Thomson in the sundown of his life pronounced its members "... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 360 pages
...— and I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master statesmen of the world — for solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom...under a complication of difficult circumstances, no body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress of Philadelphia. The histories of Greece... | |
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