universal testimony

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It is the universal testimony of all who served her, that no Sovereign ever supported her successive Ministers with a more perfect loyalty or held the scales between contending parties with a more complete impartiality.

From Historical and Political Essays by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

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 Clarke, James Freeman

But I must return to Ottawa, where the universal testimony of all the heads of the Government was to the effect that Canada is the place for the poor, hard-working man. 

From Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

Such, according to the universal testimony of those who knew him, and according to portraits painted from life and preserved in his family, was the John Rolph of fifty to sixty years ago.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles

Women had been voting for these officers seven years under this Act, and always for the benefit of the schools, according to the almost universal testimony of educational authorities.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted