 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 pàgines
...was more evident than reason or experience in the simple-minded, overpowering conviction with which the clergy and serious citizens of Massachusetts and...sons of granite and ice turned their faces from the sight, and smiled in their sardonic way at the folly or wickedness of men who could pretend to believe... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 pàgines
...was more evident than reason or experience in the simple-minded, overpowering conviction with which the clergy and serious citizens of Massachusetts and...sons of granite and ice turned their faces from the sight, and smiled in their sardonic way at the folly or wickedness of men who could pretend to believe... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1909 - 458 pàgines
...were in the same social condition as the contemporaries of Catiline and the adherents of Kobespierre, sat down to bide their time until the tempest of democracy...race was never better "" shown than when, with the sunligjitjjfjiie -nineteenth century bursting__up2n_JJiejn, these resolute sons of granite and Ice... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1920 - 222 pàgines
...without. "The obstinacy of the race," says Henry Adams, in commenting on the New England intellectuals, "was never better shown than when, with the sunlight...sons of granite and ice turned their faces from the sight, and smiled in their sardonic way at the folly or wickedness of men who could pretend to believe... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1993 - 148 pàgines
...years of the Republic, we must agree with Henry Adams in that famous paragraph where he writes that the obstinacy of the race was never better shown than...when, with the sunlight of the nineteenth century burst in upon them, those resolute sons of granite and ice turned their faces from the sight and smiled... | |
 | Henry Adams - 2006 - 244 pàgines
...was more evident than reason or experience in the simple-minded, overpowering conviction with which the clergy and serious citizens of Massachusetts and...sons of granite and ice turned their faces from the sight, and smiled in their sardonic way at the folly or wickedness of men who could pretend to believe... | |
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The obstinacy of the race was never better shown than when, with the sunlight of the nineteenth century bursting upon them, these resolute sons of granite and ice turned their faces from the sight, and smiled in their sardonic way at the folly or wickedness... 