universal testimony
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The universal testimony of the great, that fame itself is barren, is thrust aside as of small moment.
From The Spinster Book by Reed, Myrtle
By the universal testimony of his friends, Robert Emmet was a youth of modest character, pure motives and winning personality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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
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
The novice-master was Father Othmann, and he was by universal testimony entirely competent for his place.
From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter
