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)

The universal testimony from all the sources above mentioned, seems to be that in all the natural elements of wealth the whole of the northern part of the Peninsula abounds.

From Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings by Strickland, W. P. (William Peter)

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

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

They did not rise up in judgment against me, but there appeared one universal testimony against all the good I had done, and all the sentiments of evil I had entertained.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

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