Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people... The United States Literary Gazette - Стр. 4231826Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - Страниц: 390
...extent to which it had been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - Страниц: 662
...has been pushed by this recent • Dwight's Travels. people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood."* It is curious enough to compare with this splendid encomium upon the adventurous spirit of mercantile... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - Страниц: 396
...extent to which it had been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.... | |
| Edward Everett - 1850 - Страниц: 716
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of manhood," been achieved, in this respect, since the declaration of independence. Nor is the progress less remarkable... | |
| New Hampshire Historical Society - 1850 - Страниц: 354
...the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." This trait in our character has since extended and been developed over the whole country, though in... | |
| Henry Theodore Cheever - 1850 - Страниц: 330
...of New England enterprise, while, as Atlantic Whale Fishery. French Whaling Fleet. Burke said, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. By the year 1771, New England, through her adventurous whale fishery, was both in the North and South... | |
| 1851 - Страниц: 162
...inherited all your indomitable love of liberty and all your insatia>ble passion for power. Though still in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood, America will, within the short period of sixteen months, cast off your dominion and defy your utmost... | |
| Success - 1851 - Страниц: 362
...the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people—a people who are still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Nothing is more remarkable indeed than the later his106 INDUSTRY. tory of the Anglo-Saxon race. We... | |
| Josiah Quincy - 1852 - Страниц: 476
...brightest beams in the glory of that day. they would, in their own time, have enjoyed peace, seeured plenty, attained external protection under the shield...hardened into the bone of manhood," to rush on the thick tosses of the buckler of the most powerful State in Europe, the one most capable of annoying them,... | |
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