 | HON. J. Y. HEADLEY - 1860 - 502 頁
...WASHINGTON. dress to Congress, than the policy of modern European courts. Illustrious man ! desiring honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind." He declared that the potentates of Europe sank into insignificance before him. " For him," said he,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1867 - 616 頁
...in the British Parliament on the thirty-first of January, 1794: " Illustrious man ! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from...mind ! before whom all borrowed greatness sinks into insignin'omncel.... I cannot, Indeed, help admiring the wisdom and fortune of this great man; by the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1867 - 604 頁
...said in the British Parliament on the thirty-first of January, 1794: "Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind 1 before whom all borrowed greatness sinks Into Insignificance 1 — I cannot, Indeed, help admiring... | |
 | 1901 - 510 頁
...the British Parliament, exalt the character of Washington as that ' illustrious man, deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from...borrowed greatness sinks into insignificance and all potentates of Europe become little and contempttible;' if the famous eloquence of Erskine could speak... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 頁
...addresses to congress than the policy of modern European courts ! Illustrious man ! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from...own royal family — become little and contemptible. I can not, indeed, help admiring the wisdom and fortune of this great man. A character, of virtues... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 頁
...reverence." " Illustrious man ! " said Fox of him, in the British House of Commons in 1794, " deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from...insignificance, and all the potentates of Europe* become little and contemptible." " Washington is dead ! " proclaimed Napoleon, on hearing of the event.... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1879 - 680 頁
...addresses to congress than the policy of modern European courts ! Illustrious man ! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from...own royal family — become little and contemptible. I can not, indeed, help admiring the wisdom and fortune of this great man. A character, of virtues... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1883 - 756 頁
...addresses to congress than the policy of modern European courts ! Illustrious man ! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from...own royal family — become little and contemptible. I can not, indeed, help admiring the wisdom and fortune of this great man. A character, of virtues... | |
 | James Walter - 1886 - 412 頁
...of any of the European Courts, and, as the illustrious man deriving honour less from the splendour of his situation than from the dignity of his mind,...into insignificance, and all the potentates of Europe become little and contemptible,' — rose to memory, as did the burning exultation of Erskine only... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 頁
...to Congress, compared with the policy of modern European courts ! Illustrious man ! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind ! Grateful to France for the assistance received from her in that great contest which secured the independence... | |
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Illustrious man, deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind ; before whom all borrowed greatness sinks into insignificance, and all the potentates of Europe (excepting the members of our own royal family)... 
