universal testimony

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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)

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)

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)

I think that these were exceptional victims of cruelty, for the almost universal testimony of our soldiers was that the surgeons were their best friends at the South.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

Results of this Unnatural Crime.—It is the universal testimony of physicians that the effects of abortion are almost as deadly upon the mother as upon the child.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey