 | Louis Clinton Hatch - 1903 - 248 páginas
...minds. I have no doubt that posterity will repeat the closing words of his Excellency's address, — ' Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.' "3 Major Shaw applied these same words to Washington,... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1904 - 568 páginas
...occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, 'Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection, to which human nature is capable of attaining.'" WASH1NGTON THANKED BY RESOLUTION. Upon completing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 594 páginas
...Illustrious man ! What he says of the army may with equal justice be applied to his own character : ' Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.' " * The moment Washington retired from the assemblage,... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1906 - 472 páginas
...would enable " posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example they had exhibited to mankind, had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining." Why should we dilate here on the particulars of this... | |
 | Macgrane Coxe - 1906 - 78 páginas
...occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind— had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining." Every heart was touched, and the movement of the would-be... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1910 - 494 páginas
...occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, "Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection, to which human nature is capable of attaining." FAREWELL ORDERS TO THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris - 1910 - 492 páginas
...occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, "Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection, to which human nature is capable of attaining." FAREWELL ORDERS TO THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES... | |
 | Henry Belcher - 1911 - 440 páginas
...blood" . . . "thus you will, by the dignity of your conduct, afford occasion for posterity to say, 'Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.'" There were those present who wished to say that the... | |
 | Massachusetts Medical Society - 1829 - 546 páginas
...of their devotion to the liberties of their country; and in the language of Washington, we may say, "had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining." VOL. iv. 14 After the army was disbanded, Col. Brooks... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1777-1795 : Clinton) - 1904 - 612 páginas
...occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, 'Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection, to which human nature is capable of attaining.'" WASHINGTON THANKED BY RESOLUTION. Upon completing... | |
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Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection, to which human nature is capable of attaining. 
