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
Skarlie was a person who was less transparent; according to universal testimony he had settled in this town merely to study the prevailing conditions and utilize them for his own benefit—"without competition and without control."
From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
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 of our fishermen that two are never seen swimming close together.
From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane
