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
| Augustin Cochin - Slavery - 1863 - 438 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 in the course of a single life ! ' If this state of his country... | |
| Augustin Cochin - Slavery - 1863 - 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 in the course of a single life ! ' If this state of his country... | |
| Roger Therry - Australia - 1863 - 544 pages
...Australia, 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,... | |
| Orator - 1864 - 186 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 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...civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a scries of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a... | |
| Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 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...improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by a succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - History - 1905 - 586 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...conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of 1,700 years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life!" If this... | |
| T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 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,...has been " 'growing to by a progressive increase of improve" ' ment, brought in by varieties of people, by succes" ' sion of civilising conquests and civilising... | |
| Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst - Great Britain - 1905 - 264 pages
...America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse 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." He asked whether all the glory and progress of a century was to be sacrificed to the litigious obstinacy... | |
| 1896 - 728 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... | |
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