 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 any care of ours, and that they are...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Σελίδα 3451848Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 σελίδες
...these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous...suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I see how profitable these effects have been to us, I feel all the pride of power melt and die away within... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 σελίδες
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered 1 draw the line and strike the harpoon. Note how much more vivid a specific, concrete statement than... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1886 - 486 σελίδες
...contemplate these things j when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothmg to any care of ours, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous...suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I see how profitable these effects have been to us, I feel all the pride of power melt and die away within... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 342 σελίδες
...this unprecedented phenomenon. He tells us that the colonies had made this marvellous growth because, "through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature...been suffered to take her own way to perfection." But by that " wise and salutary neglect " he meant freedom from the petty and short-sighted meddlesomeness... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 334 σελίδες
...unprecedented phenomenon. He tells us that the colonies had made this marvellous growth becanse, " through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature...been suffered to take her own way to perfection." But by that " wise and salutary neglect " he meant freedom from the petty and short-sighted meddlesomeness... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - 1890 - 548 σελίδες
...governing the American colonies from England are well stated in Narr. and Crit. Hitt. Amer., vi. 22, 23. through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous Nature...been suffered to take her own way to perfection." This process toward perfection was to be rudely interrupted now by a man great in little things, accomplished... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1891 - 836 σελίδες
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 σελίδες
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...generous nature has been suffered to take her own 30 way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been... | |
 | 1892 - 436 σελίδες
...manhood. When I contemplate these things ; that the colonies owe little or nothing to any care of ours; that they are not squeezed into this happy form by...has been suffered to take her own way to perfection, I feel all the pride of power sink and die away within me. My rigor relents! I pardon something to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 σελίδες
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...generous nature has been suffered to take her own 3o way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been... | |
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