universal testimony

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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)

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

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

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

It is the universal testimony of experienced teachers that such materials as are pervaded with reality serve a useful purpose with young pupils.

From Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Blaisdell, Albert F.