 | Maurice A. Richter - Local government - 1859 - 338 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours if we have the disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own, yet it appears to me there is an option still left to...be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miscrable as a nation. This is the time of their political probation ; this is the moment when the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...life; and acknowledged possessore of ' absolute freedom and independency.' This is the time," said he, "of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon then}; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever. This is the favourable... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own ; yet it appears to me there is an option still left to...the whole world are turned upon them ; this is the time to establish or ruin their national character for ever ; this is the favorable moment to give... | |
 | John Warner Barber - United States - 1860 - 478 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion, and make it our own ; yet it appears to me, there is an option still left to...the whole world are turned upon them; this is the time to establish or ruin their national character for ever; this is the favourable moment to give... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1861 - 502 pages
...acknowledged possessors of ' absolute freedom aad \Bidftp«a4«Qe^.' " Tbfe is tira feaft," sai& ks, " o? faw political probation ; this is the moment when the...moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever. This is the favorable moment to give such a tone to the federal government, as will enable... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...notwithstanding . . . happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own; yet It appears to me there is an option still left to the United States of America, that ... It depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible... | |
 | Charles Sumner - History - 1867 - 36 pages
...governors, dated at Headquarters, where, after saying that it was for the United States to determine " whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation" Washington proceeds to name first among the things essential to National well-being, if not even to... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...and if their citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own This is the time of their political probation ; this...moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever." He then goes on to describe what he considers to be the "Four Pillars of the State:" —... | |
 | Nathaniel Burt - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1875 - 40 pages
...necessaries and conveniences of life ; and acknowledged possessors of absolute freedom and independence; this is the time of their political probation; this is the moment to establish or ruin their character forever. This is the favorable moment to give such a tone to the... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion, and make it our own, yet it appears to me there is an option still left to...the whole world are turned upon them : this is the time to establish or ruin their national character forever : this is the favorable moment to give such... | |
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Such is our situation, and such are our prospects. But notwithstanding the cup of blessing is thus reached out to us ; notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion, and make it our own ; yet it appears to me there... 
