universal testimony
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How often we should have been disappointed and dissatisfied with such books, and have thrown them aside impatiently, had we not remembered the great universal testimony to their surpassing excellence!
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
I will leave to the doctors the description of its effect on nerve and brain, and to common observation the universal testimony to the peculiar blurring of judgment which stimulant of any kind usually produces.
From The Young Man and the World by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
That these were made prisoners and slaves, we have the universal testimony of all writers on the history of Massachusetts.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
It is the almost universal testimony that Scully’s rule in that county has reduced 250 tenants and their families to a condition approaching serfdom.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
And such in fact was the universal testimony of the managers throughout Antigua.
From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child