 ... they comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an ideal which was at least as worthy as that for which Washington fought.  Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute - Page 272de Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1902Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 pages
...supporters of a beaten cause history has paid but a scanty tribute to their memory, but they comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced,...least as worthy as that for which Washington fought. The maintenance of one free, industrial, and pacific empire, comprising the whole English race, holding... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 594 pages
...but a scanty tribute to their memory, but they comprised some of the best and ablest men America ha? ever produced, and they were contending for an ideal...least as worthy as that for which Washington fought. The maintenance of one free, industrial, and pacific empire, comprising the whole English race, holding... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1893 - 524 pages
...supporters of a beaten cause history has paid but a scanty tribute to their memory, but they comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an ideal which 1 Adams' Works, ii. 384. differences in Congress in Adams* ' See a graphic account of the Works, ii.... | |
 | Henry Ferguson - 1894 - 224 pages
...supporters of a beaten cause history has paid but a scanty tribute to their memory, but they comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced,...least as worthy as that for which "Washington fought. The maintenance of one free, industrial and pacific empire, comprising the whole English race, may... | |
 | 1895 - 534 pages
...a beaten cause, history has paid but a scanty tribute to their memory, but they comprised some oí the best and ablest men America has ever produced,...was, at least, as worthy as that for which Washington had fought." The existence of French Canada is no bar to the federation of the Empire. It is the boast... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1896 - 518 pages
...comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced, and they were contending for an idea which was at least as worthy as that for which Washington fought. The maintenance of one free, industrial, and pacific empire, comprising the whole English-speaking... | |
 | United Empire Loyalists' Association of Ontario - 1897 - 334 pages
...supporters of a beaten cause, history has paid a scanty tribute to their memory, but they composed some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced,...least as worthy as that for which Washington fought. The maintenance of one free industrial and pacific empire, comprising the whole of the English race,... | |
 | Daniel Dulany Addison - 1897 - 382 pages
...their ability as men and their sincerity as Tories, and their greatness of thought in striving for " the maintenance of one free industrial and pacific empire, comprising the whole English-speaking race." l That the Tories had in mind the strengthening and perpetuation of a great... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 596 pages
...supporters of a beaten cause history has paid but a scanty tribute to their memory, but they comprised some of the best and ablest men America has ever produced,...subjection, blending all that was most venerable in au ancient civilization with the redundant energies of a youthful society, and likely in a few generations... | |
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