 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
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 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. Whatever Eng- . land has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...commerce, the colony trade was but one twelfth part ; it is now (as a part of sixteen millions) tracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought considerably more than a third of the • in by varieties of people, by succession of whole. This is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 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...brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements in a series of 1,700 years, you shall see as much added... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; jet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now...brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements in a series of 1,700 years, you shall see as much added... | |
 | Daniel Blowe - Canada - 1820 - 788 pages
...provinces, then subject to Great Britain, uses the following prophetic language: — , " Whatever Englcnd has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement,...conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of 1700 years, you shall see as much done by America in the course of a single life." Tin's anspicious... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew tself equal to the whole of that commerce which naw Attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvements, brought in by variety of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 em-y ' of the world. Whatever England lias been growing to by a progressive improvement, brought in... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 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...brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see... | |
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