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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by Pen and ... - Page 550
by Benson John Lossing - 1851
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...in all my reading and observation— and it has been my favourite study — I have read Thucidydes and have studied and admired the master states of...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress...
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Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl ..., Volume 2

John Almon - 1810 - 378 pages
...in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favourite study— I have read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired the master- states of...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general Congress...
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Anecdotes of the life of ... William Pitt, earl of Chatham [by J ..., Volume 2

John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...been my favourite study — I have read Thucidydesj and have studied and admired the master-states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the genera] Congress...
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The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces ...

Caleb Bingham - Elocution - 1811 - 316 pages
...have studied and admired the master-states ot the world:) I say I must declare, that, for solidity and 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 General Congress...
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An Introductory Discourse: Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical ...

DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 160 pages
...myself I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and ohservation, — and it has heen my favourite study, (I have read Thucydides, and have studied and...wisdom- of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or hody of men can stand in preference to the general congress at...
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Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, Volume 1

Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favourite study, (I have read Thucidydes, and have studied and admired the master states of...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at...
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The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces ...

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,...wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, uo nation, or body of men can sland in preference to the General Congress...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...independence. "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, but for solidity of reasoning, force of •agacity and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study — I have re»d Thucidydes, and hive studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity and reasoning, force of sagacity, ml wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of different circumstances,...
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Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, and His Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Richard Henry Lee - United States - 1825 - 318 pages
...myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation, and it has been my favourite study, I have read Thucydides, and have studied and...of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such complication of circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the genera) ....
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