| England - 1862 - 822 pages
...represent the material interests and responsibilities of the nation 1 Not at all ; he is the choice of a numerical majority of a people who have derived the...Abraham Lincoln and Mr WH Seward as their best men 1 If not, can they substitute better men? If they cannot, what other proof is needed of the inefficacy... | |
| Frederick Stoever Dickson - Great Britain - 1896 - 28 pages
...foreign country, nor an American a foreigner," and that " they and we are one flesh," the conclusion is forced upon us that the education of the average English...substitute better men ? If they cannot, what other 20 21 proof is needed of the inefficacy of their boasted institutions ? An imbecile executive above,... | |
| 1925 - 504 pages
...demand in the fame of Abraham Lincoln, when we are told that "it would have been impossible for him to have emerged, under British institutions, from the mediocrity to which nature had condemned him, and from which pure democracy alone was capable of rescuing him."? "Punch" is, I believe, presumed... | |
| Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - History - 1995 - 276 pages
...death, as a nearly illiterate politician. "It would have been impossible," a London magazine commented, "for him, or any of his Cabinet, to have emerged,...the mediocrity to which nature had condemned them." 18 Frank J. Merli, Great Britain and the Confederate Navy (Bloomington, Ind., 1970), 21. 'calamity... | |
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