 Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 43by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 118 pages
...of England, the genius should point out to him a little 5 speck, scarcely visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him : " Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 874 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body, and should tell him: "Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 876 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body, and should tell him: "Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 360 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him, "Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — "Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him, — " Young man, there is America — -which at this day serves for little more than... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - 1993 - 172 pages
...the then commercial grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarcely visible in the mass of national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formal body, and should tell him, — 'Young man, there is America.'" It would take "all the sanguine... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 pages
...grandeur of England, The Genius should point out to him a litde speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him 'Young man, There is America - which at this day serves for litde more than to amuse... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 pages
...emphasis by quoting Burke's great speech on the eve of the American Revolution, citing his reference to "that little speck, scarce visible in the mass of...small seminal principle, rather than a formed body," which gave such engendering power to the arrival of the Pilgrims (207). That speck was best pinpointed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 pages
...grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — "Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than... | |
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