 | 1879 - 592 pàgines
...the remarkable circumstance of its first beginnings, certain it is that even from very early times a sense of a vast and mysterious destiny, unfolding in a distant future, had taken possession of the minds both of Americans and of Englishmen. Shakespeare (or it may be Ben... | |
 | George William Bagby - 1885 - 440 pàgines
...the older nations. And this expectation is no new thing. Certain it is, that, from very early times, a sense of a vast and mysterious destiny, unfolding in a distant future, had taken possession of the minds, both of Americans and Englishmen."* Bishop Berkeley, writing in... | |
 | Lillian Hoag Monk - 1920 - 210 pàgines
...the remarkable circumstances of its first beginnings, certain it is, that even from very early times a sense of a vast and mysterious destiny unfolding in a distant future, had taken possession of the mind both of Americans and of Englishmen. * * * ' Let it not be grievous... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1996 - 460 pàgines
...one of those constellations which mark only those great creative epochs in the history of nations. Certain it is, from very early time a sense of a vast...sky-ascending spray above, he says : "That silver column "•littcrinjj in the moonlight, seemed an ima^e of the < "' OO ' t? future of American history —... | |
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Whether from the remarkable circumstance of its first beginnings, certain it is, that even from very early times a sense of a vast and mysterious destiny unfolding in a distant future, had taken possession of the minds both of Americans and of Englishmen. 