 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
 | African Americans - 1857 - 402 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." ' We have alluded to this wellknown but ever fresh and fine prosopopoeia of the great Englishman, because... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 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 " ' show...which " ' now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever Eng" ' land has been growing to by a progressive increase of ' improvement, brought in by varieties... | |
 | Theology - 1857 - 932 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...of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world."i We have alluded to this well-known but ever fresh and fine prosopopoeia of the great Englishman,... | |
 | REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, M.D., D.D. - 1859 - 522 pages
...House of Commons, "that whatever England had been growing to, by a progressive increase of improvements brought in by varieties of people, by succession of...settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in a single life." It was hoped, therefore, that the... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 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...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 Edwards (Teacher.) - Great Britain - 1860 - 304 pages
...America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savsge 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 see... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1860 - 528 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...improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by a succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...whole of that commerce you have fell would have been a desolating which now attracts the envy of tho ll as certainly ensue in famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 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...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought on by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests, and civilizing settlements, in a... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - United States - 1861 - 434 pages
...more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce...England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvements, brought in by variety of people, by successsion of civilizing conquests and civilizing... | |
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