 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1835 - 372 pages
...States — Democracy with Slavery — Quakers. THE possible destiny of the United States of America — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen — stretching...Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception. Why jhould we not wish to see it realized ? America would then be England viewed through a solar microscope... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1835 - 410 pages
...States — Democracy with Slavery — Quakers. THE possible destiny of the United States of America — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen — stretching...Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception. Why jhould we not wish to see it realized ? America would then be England viewed through a solar micro*... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...the promised land of freedom and of man. 'The possible destiny of the United States of America, — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, —...Shakspeare and Milton, — is an august conception.'* It is a consummation almost too boundless for human thought; but its sublimity chiefly consists in... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 676 pages
...promised land of freedom and of man. ' The possible destiny of the United States of America, — asa nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching...Shakspeare and Milton, — is an august conception." It is a consummation almost too boundless for human thought; but its sublimity chiefly consists in... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - California - 1844 - 516 pages
...J840, ; "THE POSSIBLE DESTTNY OP THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS A NATION OP A HTODRED MILLIONS OP FREEMEN, STRETCHING FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, LIVING UNDER THE LAWS O? ALFRED, AND SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE Or SHAKSPEARB AND MILTON, IS AN AUGUST CONCEPTION." « COLERIDGE'S... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - California - 1845 - 538 pages
...BEKATE or THB URITBD ITATBI. " THE POSSIBLE DESTINY OF THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, AS A NATION OP A HUNDRED MILLIONS OF FREEMEN, STRETCHING FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, LIVING UNDEH THE LAWS OF ALFRED, AND SPEAKING THE LANOUAGE OP SHAE8PEARE AND MILTON, IS AN AUGUST CONCEPTION."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 636 pages
...very significant motto of bis book, said : — ' The possible destiny of the United States of America, as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, stretching...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspere and Milton, is an august conception.' — Coleridge's Table Talk, vol. ii. p. 150. But neither... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 634 pages
...very significant motto of his book, said : — ' The possible destiny of the United States of America, as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, stretching...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspere and Milton, is an august conception.' — Coleridge's Table Talk, vol. ii. p. 150. But neither... | |
 | 1846 - 352 pages
...' The possible destiny of the United States of America, as a nation of a hundred millions of cific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the...of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception.' — Coleridge's Table Talk, vol. ii., p. 150. But neither Mr. Coleridge nor ourselves ever imagined... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - California - 1847 - 530 pages
...Pacific," and ere the end of the present century, it will be inhabited by " a hundred millions of freemen, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton," with such variations and improvements, as the difference of circumstances may render necessary. Whether... | |
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The possible destiny of the United States of America — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakespeare and Milton, is an august conception. 
