 | American Antiquarian Society - 1857 - 560 Seiten
...prophetic eulogium of Burke, who saw in it the promise of the future greatness of a people then but in the " gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of manhood." The prophecy has become history ; and, however some may have been disposed to disparage this element... | |
 | Anna Ella Carroll - 1857 - 628 Seiten
...extent to which it has been, pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, hut in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Mr. Reynolds presented to Congress a list of four hundred newly discovered islands, running through... | |
 | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 Seiten
...extent to which it has been pushed Iby this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1858 - 454 Seiten
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | GEORGE BANOROIT - 1858 - 450 Seiten
...extent to which it has been pushed Toy this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies In general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | 1859 - 370 Seiten
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | 1860 - 612 Seiten
...those to whom, as colonists, the well-known language of Burke is still applicable : " A people but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." That in this essentially practical age a race so thoroughly energetic and progressive as that from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 Seiten
...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1862 - 346 Seiten
...whalefishing station, through the skill and daring of New England enterprise, while, as Burke said, "but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." By the year 1771 New England, through her adventurous whale fishery, both in the North and South Atlantic... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 728 Seiten
...extent to which it has been pushed by this reoent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Again, in speaking of the education of the colonists : " I have been told by an eminent bookseller,... | |
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Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people... 
