 | South America - 1825 - 482 pages
...hide in the earth the talent committed to our charge^would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth....unmindful that liberty is power ; that the nation, blessed with the largest portion of liberty, must, in proportion to its numbers, be the most powerful... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1826 - 884 pages
...in the earth the talent committed to our charge — would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts, The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth....unmindful that liberty is power ; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty, must, in proportion to its numbers, be the most powerful... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1826 - 918 pages
...in the earth the talent committed to our charge — would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth....pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of pur political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power ; that the nation blessed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1826 - 902 pages
...the earth the talent committed to our charge — would be treachery to the roost sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth....of our fellow-citizens alone, but of the nations of Eurojv, and of their rulers. While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 772 pages
...earth. It stimulates the heart, and sharpens the faculties, not of our fellow-citizen!" alone, hut of the nations of Europe, and of their rulers. While...unmindful that liberty is power ; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty, must, in proportion to its numbers, be the most powerful... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 658 pages
...committed to our charge — would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement ia abroad upon the earth. It stimulates the heart, and sharpens the faculties, not of our fcllow.citiz.eni4 alone, but of the nations of Europe, and of their rulers. While dwelling with pleasing... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 650 pages
...in the earth the talent committed to our charge — would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth. It stimulates the heart, and sharpens thir faculties, not of our fellow-citizen:; affj alone, but of the nations of Europe, and of their... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Blanc, Mont (France and Italy) - 1828 - 450 pages
...in the earth the talent committed to our charge — would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth....unmindful that liberty is power ; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must, in proportion to its numbers, be the most powerful... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...in the earth the talent committed to our charge — would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth. It stimulates the hearts, and sharpens the faculties, not of our fellow-citizens alone, but of the nations of Europe,... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...in the earth the talent committed to our charge— would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth. It stimulates the hearts and sharpens the faculties, not of our fellow-citizens alone, but of the nations of Europe,... | |
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... sciences, ornamental and profound, to refrain from exercising them for the benefit of the people themselves would be to hide in the earth the talent committed to our charge— would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts. The spirit of improvement... 
