 | 1836 - 878 pages
...re-united they proceed onwards. This gradual and continuous progress of the European race to.vards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unnhatedly, and daily driven onwards by the hand of Cod. " Within this first line of conquering sri... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 500 pages
...its two extremities fall back upon themselves, and as soon as they are re-united they proceed onward. This gradual and continuous progress of the European...deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God. Within this first line of conquering settlers, towns are built, and vast... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1841 - 522 pages
...are reunited they proceed onward. This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky mountains, has the solemnity of a providential...deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God. Within this first line of conquering settlers, towns are built, and vast... | |
 | Michael Solomon Alexander (bp. of Jerusalem.) - 1841 - 526 pages
...and through the tangled forests of North America, the progress of the European race is going * with the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatingly, and daily driven onward by the hand of GOD. And in the East the prophecy is being fulfilled... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 344 pages
...gradual and continuous march of the European race towards the Eocky Mountains. He compares it to " a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onwards by the hand of God." * When conversing with a New England friend on the progress of American population, I was surprised... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1845 - 788 pages
...gradual and continuous march of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains. He compares it to ' a deluge of men, rising unabatedly, and daily driven onwards by the hand of God.' — vol. ii. p. 77. A few miles below Wheeling, on the left bank of the Ohio, Mr. Lyell visited the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 720 pages
...gradual and continuous march of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains. He compares it to " a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onwards by the hand of God."* When conversing with a New England friend on the progress of American population, I was surprised to... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 pages
...are reunited they proceed onward. This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky mountains, has the solemnity of a providential...deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God. the United States in 1?52, will be twenty millions : in 1874, fortyeight... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 pages
...are reunited they proceed onward. This gradual and continuous progress of the European I race toward the Rocky mountains, has the solemnity of a providential...deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God. ij Within this first line of conquering settlers, towns are built, and vast... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 400 pages
...are reunited, they proceed onward. This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential...deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God. " Within this first line of conquering settlers towns are built and vast... | |
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This gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God. 
