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 - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 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... | |
| Josiah Conder - Canada - 1829 - 466 pages
...export trade of England at the former period. "What England had been growing to by a progressive course of improvement, brought in by varieties of people,...conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of 1700 years," to use the emphatic language of Burke, was doubled to her by America in the course of... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1829 - 592 pages
...above-mentioned year. ' What Eng' land had been growing to by a progressive course of improve' ment, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of...conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of 1700 years,' (to use the words of the eloquent statesman,) was doubled to her by America in the course... | |
| Abel Bowen - United States - 1830 - 410 pages
...growth which, in his time, had happened to this country within the short period of the life of man. "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 course of a single life." Thus he supposes the genius... | |
| Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 396 pages
...export trade of England at the former period. " What England had been growing to by a progressive course 'of improvement, brought in by varieties of people,...conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of 1700 years," to use the emphatic language of Burke, was doubled to her by America in the course of... | |
| 1830 - 222 pages
...Irado of England in the abovemenlioned year. " What England had been growing to by a progressive course of improvement, brought in by varieties of people,...succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlement*, in a series of 1700 years," (to us« the words of the eloquent stntcsjnan) was doubled... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...stories of savage en aud uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to e @ D A C C@ + nglaud has beeu growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought, in r varieties of people,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 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...the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progreasive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole ofthat tration, that , having no scheme of their own, took a middle line, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of asingle life!" If this state ofhiscountry... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 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...the envy " of the world. Whatever England has been " ïrowin<r to by a progressive increase of improve" ment, brought in by varieties of people, by "... | |
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