 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch...He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et quae sit poterit cognoscere virtus — Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...my friends, let us YOUNG men drink to the repose of the old gentleman that has left us.' A34 member all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of...things. He was then old enough, acta parentum jam leg ere, et qua sit, potent cognoscere -virtus. Suppose, Sir, that the Angel of this auspicious youth,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...has happened within tile' short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight yean. There are those alive whose memory might touch the...remember all the stages' of the progress. He was in 1 7O4 of an age, at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough a^ta farmt*m... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1804 - 694 pages
...prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. Ic has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch...extremities. For instance, my lord Bathurst might remcmher all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age, at least to be made to comprehend... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch...remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1 704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough aeta partntum... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch...He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et qua sitpoterit cognoscere virtus — Suppose, sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch...He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et qute sit potent cognoscere virtus — Suppose, sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within 68 years. There are those alive whose memory might touch...He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et gute sit potent cognoscere virtus — Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within 68 years. There are those alive whose memory might touch...He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et qiue sit poterit cognoscere virtus. — Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive, whose memory might touch...instance, my lord Bathurst might remember all the singes of the progress. He was, iii 1704, i." an age at least to be made to comprehend such things;... | |
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Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight... 
