 THE possible destiny of the United States of America, — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 3031846Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 742 pages
...— as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the...of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception. Why should we not wish to see it realized ? America would then be England viewed through a solar microscope;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 410 pages
...America — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the...of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception. Why jhould we not wish to see it realized ? America would then be England viewed through a solar micro*... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...— as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the...Shakspeare and Milton, — is an august conception. Why should we not wish to see it realized ? America would then be England viewed through a solar microscope,... | |
 | 1836 - 676 pages
...America, — asa nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the...Shakspeare and Milton, — is an august conception." It is a consummation almost too boundless for human thought; but its sublimity chiefly consists in... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1837 - 164 pages
...America, as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the...of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception — why should we not wish to see it realized?' On the subject of internal improvements the young giant... | |
 | John Mason Peck - 1837 - 352 pages
...States as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the...Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception— why should we not wish to see it realized! On the subject of internal improvements the young giant... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1846 - 638 pages
...the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspere and Milton, is an august conception.' — Coleridge's...ingenuity, quotes his authority; for Mr. Coleridge had said just before — - * The more the Americans extend their borders into the Indians' lands the weaker... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1846 - 636 pages
...the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspere and Milton, is an august conception.' — Coleridge's...ingenuity, quotes his authority; for Mr. Coleridge had said just before — ' The more the Americans extend their borders into the Indians' lands the weaker... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - 1847 - 530 pages
...Pacific," and ere the end of the present century, it will be inhabited by " a hundred millions of freemen, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton," with such variations and improvements, as the difference of circumstances may render necessary. Whether... | |
 | 1851 - 702 pages
...America, as a nation of a hundred million of freemen, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the...of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception," and after expressing an earnest desire for a solution of the difficulty consistent with the original... | |
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