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
| Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 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 civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see... | |
| Ohio - 1839 - 358 pages
...America, which at this day serves 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... | |
| Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - Ohio - 1839 - 356 pages
...America, which at this day serves 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... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 612 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 the state of his... | |
| George Croly - Politicians - 1840 - 334 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 the state of his... | |
| John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 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 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... | |
| Commerce - 1842 - 608 pages
...years of self-government, he could truly repeat his own beautiful apostrophe to Lord Bathurst — " Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive...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 !" How truly prophetic... | |
| John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 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...itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracis the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manner« ; he complains of vile restraint, And Power is deaf...priest for sacrifice, And C \ * Hall's Works, 2d edition, vol. iv. p. 89. succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements... | |
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