| John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. "The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations) stand as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. Until the Spaniards (very unwisely as I think) threw difficulties in their way, they looked down the... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. " The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. Until the Spaniards (very unwisely as T think) threw difficulties in their way, they looked down the... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretel. " The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. Until the Spaniards (very unwisely as I think) threw difficulties in their way, they looked down the... | |
| 1813 - 744 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretcl. The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather could turn them any way. Until the Spaniards (very unwisely as t think) threw difficulties in their... | |
| 1828 - 598 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations) stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. Until the Spaniards (very unwisely, I think) threw difficulties in their way, they looked down the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations) stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. Until the Spaniards (very unwisely, I think) threw difficulties in their way, they looked down the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations) stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. Until the Spaniards (very unwisely, I think) threw difficulties in their way, they looked down the... | |
| David Hosack - Celebrities - 1829 - 562 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. " ' The western settlers, I speak now from my own observations, stand as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. Until the Spaniards, very unwisely as I think, threw difficulties in their way, they looked down the... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...of those powers, in a commercial way? It needs not, in my opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The western States (I speak now from my own observation)...looked down the Mississippi, until the Spaniards, very impolitically I think for themselves, threw difficulties in their way; and they looked that way... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...of those powers, in a commercial way? It needs not, in my opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The western States (I speak now from my own observation)...looked down the Mississippi, until the Spaniards, very impolitically I think for themselves, threw difficulties in their way ; and they looked that way... | |
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