 | 1885 - 696 pages
...infraction, and judicial usurpation. Gladstone, the greatest living statesman, in Kin beyond Sea, said, " The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Some rudimentary principles of political economy,... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 350 pages
...indeterminate time, the other of choice and of an epoch. But, as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and the...progressive history, so the American Constitution is, sofar as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1885 - 548 pages
...infraction, and judicial usurpation. Gladstone, the greatest living statesman, in Kin beyond Sea, said, " The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Some rudimentary principles of political economy,... | |
 | Hall Harrison - 1886 - 416 pages
...dispute the judgment that Mr. Gladstone has pronounced : " As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and the...history, so the American Constitution is, so far as 1 can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.... | |
 | 1886 - 542 pages
...its base, and marked " Republic." Below are these two sentences : " The American Constitution is, as far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. — Gladstone." " The Americans have a Senate —... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 330 pages
...give validity to its proceedings, met in Philadelphia on the 25th of May, 1787. Mr. Gladstone says: "The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Before we record its work, however, it will be necessary... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 330 pages
...give validity to its proceedings, met in Philadelphia on the 25th of May, 1787. Mr. Gladstone says : " The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Before we record its work, however, it will be necessary... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 436 pages
...arrange the business) for more than four months." Mr. Gladstone has said of this Constitution, that it is, " so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." ' Of course, at the moment, no 1 " Kin beyond Sea,"... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1885 - 552 pages
...infraction, and judicial usurpation. Gladstone, the greatest living statesman, in Kin beyond Sea, said, " The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Some rudimentary principles of political economy,... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1888 - 276 pages
...from Mr. Gladstone, the following remarkable words : " As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of time, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off... | |
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But, as the British Constitution is the most subtile organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time... 
