 As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the...  The Old South Leaflets: Annual ser - Page 61886Full view - About this book
 | 1886 - 910 pages
...composition of one of the most memorable assemblies the world has ever seen. Mr. Gladstone says that just " as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given... | |
 | 1885 - 696 pages
...infraction, and judicial usurpation. Gladstone, the greatest living statesman, in Kin beyond Sea, said, " The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Some rudimentary principles of political economy,... | |
 | Texas Bar Association - 1882 - 348 pages
...race, they decided wisely and well, and our glorious Constitution is the result. Mr. Gladstone said: "As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American- Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 350 pages
...the one the offspring of tendency and indeterminate time, the other of choice and of an epoch. But, as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism...progressive history, so the American Constitution is, sofar as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose... | |
 | Alexander Pope Humphrey - 1884 - 36 pages
...the settlement and government of the Northwestern States." Of the Constitution Gladstone has said, "As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1885 - 548 pages
...infraction, and judicial usurpation. Gladstone, the greatest living statesman, in Kin beyond Sea, said, " The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." Some rudimentary principles of political economy,... | |
 | Hall Harrison - 1886 - 416 pages
...and just he was in his dealings 1Few will dispute the judgment that Mr. Gladstone has pronounced : " As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism...history, so the American Constitution is, so far as 1 can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.... | |
 | University of Minnesota - 1886 - 174 pages
...exhibited nowhere else even from Solon to Gladstone. Even the Premier himself is forced to acknowlege that "as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck oft' at a... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1886 - 504 pages
...illustrious statesman, the late Premier of Great Britain, the Right Honorable William E. Gladstone: " As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck offal any... | |
 | 1886 - 542 pages
...its base, and marked " Republic." Below are these two sentences : " The American Constitution is, as far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. — Gladstone." " The Americans have a Senate —... | |
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