 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 312 Seiten
...thunder rolling above an earthquake. VICTOE HUGO, "Ninety-Three." Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you...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 world.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 Seiten
...principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — "Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you...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 world.... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - 1889 - 430 Seiten
...descendants. BURKE, in 1765, in a speech in the House of Commons, made a most remarkable prophecy. He said : " Whatever England "has " been growing to by a progressive...people, by succession of civilizing " conquests and settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, " you shall see as much accomplished by America... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 Seiten
...principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him, — " Young man, there is America — -which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you...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 world.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 Seiten
...you with stories of savage men, 28 and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, 29 shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now...succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing setdements in a series of Seventeen Hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in... | |
 | Julia Vitullo-Martin, J. Robert Moskin - 1994 - 402 Seiten
...investment bankers would retire rich no matter what their wrongdoings "Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you...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 ' EDMUND... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1146 Seiten
...Bathurst, imagining him addressed by a predicting angel thus:) 'Young man, There is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you...men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...to compose "This Land Is Your Land" (see Guthrie on the land). 4 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. 5 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 Seiten
...principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — "Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you...men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 2002 - 308 Seiten
...principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him— "Young man, There is America— which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you...men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole ofthat commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.... | |
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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 death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy... 
