 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...revolutions, when the records of history shall have been obliterated, and the tongue of tradition have converted (as in China) the shadowy remembrance of...testimony to the genius, the learning, the industry, and the intelligence of the present age.' Documents, p. 47. It would be useless, and we are afraid annoying... | |
 | Francis Smith Eastman - New York (State) - 1828 - 320 pages
...revolutions, when the records of history shall have been obliterated, and the tongue of tradition have converted (as in China) the shadowy remembrance of...testimony to the genius, the learning, the industry, and the intelligence of the present age." Soon after this report was presented, an act was passed by the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...so completely in their power ; " and with prophetic wisdom predicting, that it will ever remain " a testimony to the genius, the learning, the industry, and intelligence of the present age." ' p. 102. But the war of 1812 suspended, for a while, all proceedings in relation to the canal. ' After... | |
 | David Hosack - Celebrities - 1829 - 562 pages
...placed so completely in their power;" and with prophetic wisdom predicting, that it will ever remain " a testimony to the genius, the learning, the industry, and intelligence of the present age." In June, 1 812, agreeably to a resolution of the board of commissioners, Judge Platt introduced a bill... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - Commercial statistics - 1835 - 628 pages
...revolutions, when the records of history shall have been obliterated, and the tongue of tradition have converted, (as in China,) the shadowy remembrance...the industry and intelligence of the present age." Sanguine as the commissioners were, as to the advantages New York would ultimately derive from the... | |
 | John Macgregor - Commercial treaties - 1846 - 658 pages
...been obliterated, and the tongue of tradition have converted (as in China) the shadowy remem.brancc of ancient events, into childish tales of miracle,...the industry, and intelligence of the present age." Gouverneur Morris may proudly claim the honour of projecting this great undertaking. To De Witt Clinton... | |
 | Orsamus Turner - Allegany County (N.Y.) - 1849 - 744 pages
...advantage those means which Providence had placed so completely in their power;" that it would be " a testimony to the genius, the learning, the industry, and intelligence of the present age." In June, 1812, the Legislature passed a law authorizing the commissioners to borrow five millions of... | |
 | William Henry Seward - New York (State) - 1853 - 698 pages
...revolutions, when the records of history shall have been obliterated, and the tongue of tradition have converted (as in China) the shadowy remembrance of...tales of miracle, this national work shall remain, bearing testimony to the genius, the learning, the industry and intelligence of the present age." Passing... | |
 | Charles Beebe Stuart - Technology & Engineering - 1871 - 418 pages
...when the records of history shall have been obliterated, and the tongues of tradition have converted the shadowy remembrance of ancient events into childish...the industry, and intelligence of the present age." Judge Geddes, in conjunction with his duties as Judge of the county in which he resided, accepted,... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1879 - 474 pages
...when the records of history shall have been obliterated, and the tongue of tradition have converted the shadowy remembrance of ancient events into childish...the industry and intelligence of the present age." AUTHOR'S APPENDIXES. APPENDIX A. JUDGE OLIVER R. STRONG, now eighty-five years old, still hale and... | |
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... of repeated revolutions, when the records of history shall have been obliterated, and the tongue of tradition have converted (as in China) the shadowy remembrance of ancient events into childish tales of miracle, this national work shall remain. It... 
