 | William Pitt - 1806 - 476 pages
...which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance, by which a Roman might have charactarized us, and by which we now characterize Africa. There is indeed one thing wanting to complete the contrast, and to clear us altogethef from the imputation of acting even to this hour as barbarians... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...barbarians. We are now raised to a situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and...There is indeed one thing wanting to complete the contrast, and to clear us altogether from the imputation of acting even to this hour as barbarians... | |
 | William Pitt, W. S. Hathaway - Great Britain - 1808 - 496 pages
...barbarians — we are now raised to.a. situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance^ by which a Roman might have characterized us, and...which we now characterize Africa. There is indeed one tlking wanting to complete the contrast, and to clear. us altogether ikom the imputation of acting... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...barbarism. We are now raised to a situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and...There is, indeed, one thing wanting to complete the contrast, and to clear us altogether from the imputation of acting even to this linur as barbarians;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...barbarians — we are now raised to a situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and by which we now characterize Africa.' . . . [The orator proceeded to a most splendid view of the civilization, the laws, the religion of... | |
 | William Augustus Gordon Hake - 1840 - 164 pages
...barbarians — we are now raised to a situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and by which we now characterize Africa. We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth, as savage in our manners, as debased in our... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...barbarians ; we are now raised to a situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every cireumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and...There is, indeed, one thing wanting to complete the contrast, and to elear us altogether from the imputation of acting, even to this hour, as barbarians... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...barbarians ; we are now raised to a situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and...There is, indeed, one thing wanting to complete the contrast, and to clear us altogether from the imputation of acting, even to this hour, as barbarians... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - Great Britain - 1852 - 322 pages
...barbarians — we are now raised to a situation which exhibit» a striking contrast to every circumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and by which we now characterize Africa. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time almost imperceptible,... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...barbarians ; we are now raised to a situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and by which we now characterize Africa. There is, indced, one thing wanting to complete the contrast, and to clear us altogether from the imputation... | |
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We, sir, have long since emerged from barbarism; we have almost forgotten that we were once barbarians; we are now raised to a situation which exhibits a striking contrast to every circumstance by which a Roman might have characterized us, and by which... 
