 While foreign nations less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied...  The Works of William H. Seward - Page 94by William Henry Seward - 1853Full view - About this book
 | South America - 1825 - 482 pages
...be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men. While foreign nations, less blessed with that freedom which...improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms, and proclaim to the world that we were palsied by the will of our constituent, would it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1826 - 884 pages
...be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men. Wliile foreign nations less blessed with, that freedom, which...improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms, and proclaim to the world that we were palsied by the will of our constituents, would... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1826 - 918 pages
...be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men. While foreign nations less blessed with that freedom, which...improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms, and proclaim to the world that we were palsied by the will of our constituents, would... | |
 | History - 1826 - 902 pages
...himself and his fellow ruon. While foreign nations less blessixl with that freedom, which is jxmxr, than ourselves, are advancing with gigantic strides...improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms, find proclaim to the world that we were palsied by the will of our constituents, would... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 658 pages
...with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied...Providence, and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority ? In the course of the year now drawing to its close, we have beheld, under the auspices, and at the... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 650 pages
...be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve^ the condition of himself and his'fellow-men. While foreign nations, less blessed with that freedom which...improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pages
...will, to be exercised in beneficence, not carrying into effect the objects of the constitution.) While foreign nations less blessed with that freedom, which is power, than ourselves (a decoy duck) are advancing with gigantic strides, in the career of public improvement; were we to... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Blanc, Mont (France and Italy) - 1828 - 454 pages
...be exercised to ends of beneficence; to improve the condition of himself and his fellow-men. While foreign nations, less blessed with that freedom which...improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it... | |
 | Edward Currier - Constitutional law - 1841 - 474 pages
...be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve tbe condition of himself and his fellow-men. While foreign nations, less blessed with that freedom which...improvement ; were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow-men. While foreign nations, less blessed with that freedom which...improvement; were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it... | |
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