 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...  Appletons' Journal - Page 1551879Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Quincy - 1852 - 476 lehte
...hazards of resistance ? — The untried, and not to be estimated perils of civil war ; — "a people in the gristle, and not yet 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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 lehte
...most perilous mode of hard industry to 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. When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1853 - 658 lehte
...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." But Britain did not conciliate. The Revolution went on, and the American whale fishery perished, leaving... | |
 | 1854 - 576 lehte
...liorilous mode of hardy industry to 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. When I contemplate these things, — when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing... | |
 | George E. Baker - 1855 - 424 lehte
...inherited all your indomitable love of liberty and all your insatiable 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... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 lehte
...perilous mode of hardy industry to 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. When I contemplate these things, — when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1824 - 872 lehte
...the extent to which it has been poshed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Thus did that most illustrious statesman speak in the British Parliament, of this fishery in 1774,... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 lehte
...perilous mode of hardy industry to 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. When I contemplate these things — when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1857 - 560 lehte
...and prophetic eulogium of Burke, who saw in it the promise of the future greatness of a people then but in the " gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of manhood." The prophecy has become history ; and, however some may have been disposed to disparage this element... | |
 | Anna Ella Carroll - 1857 - 628 lehte
...extent to which it has been, pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, hut in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Mr. Reynolds presented to Congress a list of four hundred newly discovered islands, running through... | |
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