 | 1837 - 550 pages
...every one of which greater numbers were engaged than in Massachusetts, and a great deal more blood spilt. In Turkey, where the sole nod of the despot...one another as they do there. I have tired you by thif time with disquisitions which you have already heard repeated by others a thousand and a thousand... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...particular, are too invincibly stupid or perverse to compreas we remain virtuous ; and I think we shall so as long as Agriculture is our principal object,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." From his observations on the tendency of their people to move off to the westward, and from his criticism... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 218 pages
...sees a period to the continuance of tranquillity, after the vacant lands shall have been occupied ; " when we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another, as they do there." At a later period of his life, Jefferson appears to have discovered, as most men do by sad experience,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1874 - 520 pages
...shall be so as long as agriculture is our principal object When we get piled upon one another in great cities as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in...Europe, and go to eating one another, as they do there." The founders of the Republic had seen the eating one another already in process on their own side the... | |
 | Charles Ingersoll - 1875 - 298 pages
...any part of America, When we "get piled on one another in large cities, as in " Europe, we shall be corrupt, as in Europe, and " go to eating one another, as they do there." Agriculture is no longer what it was, we are piled on one another in large cities, as in Europe, we... | |
 | E. J. Schellhous - 1883 - 362 pages
...as agriculture is the principal pursuit, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in America. ' When we get piled upon one another in large...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.' .... He was a tender husband and father, a warm friend and delightful host." — American Cyclopedia,... | |
 | E. J. Schellhous - 1883 - 362 pages
...the case while there remain vacant lands in America. ' When we get piled upon one another in largo cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.' .... He was a tender husband and father, a warm friend and delightful host." — American Cyclopedia,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 pages
...Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. When we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1887 - 414 pages
...which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled on one another, in large cities, as in Europe, we shall...corrupt, as in Europe, and go to eating one another, as thev do there." (Ib.) We in this State have stood on the vantage ground of the foundations laid for... | |
 | Virginia Frances Townsend - 1888 - 462 pages
..."When we get piled upon one another as they do in Europe," he said, " we shall be corrupt as they are in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." " He had had a various, splendid, but on the whole, happy career." He was now, as throughout his life,... | |
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This reliance cannot deceive us, as long as we remain virtuous ; and I think we shall be so, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another... 
