 Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 67by Alexander Pope - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, ehow e, Faster and faster : Chief, vassal, page, and groom, Tenant and master. * Hull1» Work«, SA edition, vol. Iv. p. 89. succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought on by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements in a series... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 pages
...amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.' .... If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...which, at this day, serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show...settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America, in the course of a single life!" If this state of his... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 536 pages
...America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show...brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 528 pages
...this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth inanners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself...brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 572 pages
...at this day serves for little " ' more than to amuse you with stories of savage " ' men and uncouth manners, yet shall before *' ' you taste of death...increase of " ' improvement, brought in by varieties of peo" ' pie, by succession of civilizing conquests and " ' civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, •how ictims ! Such notions shock every precept of morality,...abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisi * Halft Works, id edition, vol. iv. p. 09. succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements... | |
 | Theology - 1857 - 924 pages
...which, at this day, serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show...commerce which now attracts the envy of the world." l We have alluded to thia well-known but ever fresh and fine prosopopoeia of the great Englishman,... | |
 | 1851 - 162 pages
...England as much as »fee had acquired by a progressive increase of improvement, brought on, by varieties of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years. A vision has passed before my eyes j the spirit of prophecy is upon me. Listen, now, to a revelation... | |
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