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 Clarke, James Freeman

In the face of such arguments, based, as they obviously were, on universal testimony, even the faith of the person most nearly concerned and wholly responsible must, it was judged, eventually give way.

From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Gambier-Parry, Ernest

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

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)

And such in fact was the universal testimony of the managers throughout Antigua.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis