| 1857 - 932 pages
...for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage 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."i We have alluded to this well-known but ever fresh and fine prosopopoeia of the great Englishman,... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall before you taste of death show itself equal to the whole...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series... | |
| John Edwards (Teacher.) - 1860 - 304 pages
...for little more than to amuse you with stories of savsge men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole...to by a progressive increase of improvement brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements in a series... | |
| Charles Knight - 1860 - 524 pages
...for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by a succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...whole of that commerce you have fell would have been a desolating which now attracts the envy of tho ll as certainly ensue in famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole...brought on by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests, and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall... | |
| Charles Wilkins Webber - 1861 - 434 pages
...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...England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvements, brought in by variety of people, by successsion of civilizing conquests and civilizing... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series... | |
| Roger Therry - 1863 - 544 pages
...for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall before you taste of death show itself equal to the whole...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by a succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements, in a... | |
| Augustin Cochin - 1863 - 432 pages
...for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series... | |
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