 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 876 pages
...the law of nations; or rather in the special laws of our own country; for I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread, will not be admitted to...this whole northern continent of America. Francis I. is related to have replied to this pretension, that he should like to see the clause in Adam's Will,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1852 - 414 pages
...the law of nations; or rather in the special laws of our own country; for I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread, will not be admitted to...this whole northern continent of America. Francis L is related to have replied to this pretension, that he should like to see the clause in Ailunis Will,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 802 pages
...the law of nations; or rather in the special laws of our own country; for I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread, will not be admitted to...this whole northern continent of America. Francis I. is related to have replied to this pretension, that he should like to see the clause in Adam's Will,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 788 pages
...the law of nations ; or rather in the special laws of our own country ; for I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread, will not be admitted to...Speaker, reminds me of another source of title which is w r orthy of being placed beside it. Spain and Portugal, we all know, in the early part of the sixteenth... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1927 - 1058 pages
...the law of nations ; or rather, in the special laws of our own country ; for I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread will not be admitted to...exist in any nation except the universal Yankee nation ! 2 This seems to have been the first occurrence of the phrase in Congress. It was taken up and made... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 255 pages
...the Pacific Ocean ... to carry the career of mankind to its culminating point" — and this divine "right of manifest destiny to spread will not be admitted...to exist in any nation except the universal Yankee nation."28 Implicit in all these statements — drawn from Jewett's July Fourth speech, Tefft's university... | |
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I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread, will not be admitted to exist in any nation except the universal Yankee nation! 