 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...genins, in a single art, or a single science.'—' When we shall have existed as a nation,' says Mr. J. ' as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer,...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...science." — " When we shall have existed as a nation," says Mr. J. " as long as the Greeks did hefore they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and Milton, should this reproach he still true we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...or a single science,' — " When we shall have existed as a nation, as long as the Greeks did hefore they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...genius, in a single art, or a single science." — " When we shall have existed as a nation," says Mr. J. "as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Roceans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...science." Hist. Philos. p. 92, ed. Maestricht, 1774. " America has not yet produced one good poet." When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, ^he English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 710 pages
...science," ' is met with the following animated rejoinder : " ' America has not yet produced one good poet.1 When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shnkspeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
..." ' America has not yet produced one good poet.' When we shall have eiisted as a people as long us the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and MiHca. should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...science," ' is met with the following animated rejoinder : " ' America has not yet produced one good poet.' When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans . Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and Milton, should this reproach... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 642 pages
...science." Hist. Philos. p. 92, ed. Maestricht, 1774. " America has riot yet produced one good poet." When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the Euglish a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1030 pages
...exultation." This compliment was elicited by Mr. Jefferson's remark— "When we shall have exisb-d as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and Milton;... | |
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When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will enquire from what unfriendly... 
