 | Mellen Chamberlain - 1884 - 96 pages
...conscience' sake. Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great empire of Europe into America. It looks likely to me ; for if we can remove the turbulent Gallics, our people, according to exactest computation, will in another ceiitury become more numerous... | |
 | 1891 - 800 pages
...writes, " began to increase in power and magnificence, and is now the greatest nation on the globe. Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over into this new world for conscience's sake. Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire to... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1884 - 598 pages
...Webb's son fifty years after, take the following as a sample of the young man's thinking at this time: "Soon after the reformation a few people came over into this new world for conscience's sake. Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into... | |
 | Uriah Smith - 1887 - 328 pages
...moment when America is to give the law to the rest of the world." John Adams, Oct. 12, 1775, wrote :— "Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over...trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire, to America." On the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, he wrote : — "Yesterday... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...SELECTIONS FROM ADAMS'S CORRESPONDENCE. [From the Same.] TO NATHAN WEBB, WITH A STRANGE PREDICTION. SOON after the Reformation, a few people came over...looks likely to me: for if we can remove the turbulent Gajlicks, our people, according to the exactest computations, will in another century become more numerous... | |
 | 1888 - 980 pages
...accomplishment. It is dated 12th October 1754, and says—" Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over to this New World for conscience' sake. Perhaps this...trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire to America. It looks likely to me; for if we can remove the turbulent Gallic (the French in Canada),... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1888 - 596 pages
..."All creation," he would say in his musings, " is liable to change ; mighty states are not exempted. Soon after the reformation, a few people came over into this new world for conscience' sake. This apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. If we can remove... | |
 | William Barrows - 1887 - 460 pages
...and a schoolmaster. Referring to the arrival of the early colonists in the New World he remarked : " Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire to America. It looks likely to me." 3 This was in 1755. Ten years later the possibility has grown with... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1890 - 976 pages
...It is dated 12th October 1775, and says — " Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over to this New World for conscience' sake. Perhaps this...trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire to America. It looks likely to me; for if we can remove the turbulent Gallic (the French in Canada),... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1890 - 644 pages
...dated at Worcester, Massachusetts, October 12, 1755. " Soon after the Reformation, a few peoplecame over into this New World, for conscience' sake. Perhaps...this apparently trivial incident may transfer the greai seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me ; for, if we can remove the turbulent Gallics,... | |
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Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over into this New World, for conscience' sake. Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me... 
