 | John Quincy Adams - 1835 - 84 頁
...beings, and inquire who, that lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of the Christian aera, combined in himself so many of those qualities, so...justice. Try him by that \, test to which he sought an vain to stimulate the vulgar and selfish spirit of Napoleon ; class him among the men who, to compare... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1835 - 720 頁
...beings, and inquire who that lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of the Christian era, combined in himself so many of those qualities, so...of decay in which the immortal spirit is enclosed» M Lafayette. Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice.... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 頁
...beings, and inquire who, that lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of the Christian era, combined in himself so many of those qualities, so...of his age, and you have yet not done him justice. Turn back your eyes upon the records of time, — summon, from the creation of the world to this day,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 頁
...beings, and inquire who, that lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of the Christian era, combined in himself so many of those qualities, so...of his age, and you have yet not done him justice. Turn back your eyes upon the records of time, — summon, from the creation of the world to this day,... | |
 | 1857 - 642 頁
...extinguished in disappointment, and that the last may prove the noblest empire of time. CHARACTER OF nk yon have yet not done him justice. Try him by that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate the... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1858 - 1096 頁
...I. From President Adams's Eulogy on Lafayette. — Written in 1 834. '• Pronounce him one of tho first men of his age, and you have yet not done him...that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate tho vulgar and sclush spirit of Xajralron ; class him among the men who, to comparu and seat themselves,... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1859 - 656 頁
...extinguished in disappointment, and that the last may prove the nohlest empire of time. CHARACTER OF LAFAYETTE.* Pronounce him one of the first men of...age, and you have yet not done him justice. Try him hy that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate the vulgar and selfish spirit of Napoleon ; class... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 頁
...finished oration on the life and character oi Lafayette, delivered bufore Congress iu 1834 :J T)RONOUNCE him one of the first men of his age, and you -*• have yet nut done him justice. Try him by that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate the vulgar and selfish... | |
 | Sereno Dwight Nickerson, Charles H. Titus - 1875 - 650 頁
...the Bastile, in the Champs de Mars under the despotism of Bonaparte, and in the dungeons of Olmutx. Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have not done him justice. He devoted himself, his life, his fortune, his hereditary honors, his towering... | |
 | 1900 - 460 頁
...and an almost hopeless cause; but it was the cause of justice, and of the rights of humankind. . . . Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have not yet done him justice. Try him by that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate the vulgar and... | |
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Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice. Try him by that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate the vulgar and selfish spirit of Napoleon ; class him among the men who, to compare and seat themselves,... 
