| North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...if, as the brilliant historian just alluded to has affirmed, " that noble Declaration. . . . ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace,"§ it is because it has become the classic statement of political truths which must at last abolish kings... | |
| Criticism - 1865 - 836 pages
...of Independence." " In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace." With a very high appreciation of the Dictionary in its present shape, we do not affirm that it is yet... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1857 - 882 pages
...their independence. In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. In words, the memory of which can never die, they declared, that the object of the institution of government... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 906 pages
...their independence. In 177(>, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. In words, the memory of which can never die, they declared, that the object of the institution of government... | |
| 1902 - 334 pages
...recognition of its true nature prompted Buckle to characterize it as "that noble document which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace." The minority question the existence of this spirit in the materialism of the present age. Truth can... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - Fourth of July orations - 1866 - 726 pages
...that "in 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration which ought to be hung up ill the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every loyal palace." 16 A declaration of the causes which impelled the colonies to the separation was its... | |
| Education - 1875 - 398 pages
...the author of the History of Civilization in England — has written that the Declaration " ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace." We have now sought to trace the line of events, by which the subjects of a tyrannical throne and sceptre... | |
| Mrs. J. W. Stow - Probate law and practice - 1877 - 410 pages
...their independence. In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. In words, the memory of which can never die, they declared that the object of the institution of government... | |
| Marquis Fayette Dickinson - Amherst (Mass.) - 1878 - 60 pages
...to mirror the soul of the nation;" and Mr. Buckle styles it " that noble declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace." As much superior as ideas are to mere force, so much grander, as we estimate it today, was the proclamation... | |
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