universal testimony

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The almost universal testimony was, "They usually want the best and pay for it, and the most fastidious are those who can least afford it."

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various

As a writer, speaker, editor, poet, reformer, friend and associate, it was the universal testimony of those who knew him best and esteemed him most truly, that he stood in the forefront of his generation.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

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

It is the universal testimony that Eugene and Hortense were so lovely in person and in character that they instantly won the affection of all who saw them.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

In favor of the doctrine of Liberty, I next appeal to the direct, deliberate, and universal testimony of consciousness.

From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa