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As the most continentally minded, least parochial of the founders, Hamilton was arguably "the leading, because in an important sense the only, American of the 1790s."

From Time Magazine Archive

As Hamilton would have said, he "thought continentally."

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

It established a continentally based, mobile striking force of four divisions with supporting units.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.

The stanch Union men, the men who "thought continentally," as the phrase went, took the alarm and organized a counter-movement.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Roosevelt, Theodore

Here surely was one colonial who was trying, in Cecil Rhodes's words, to "think continentally!"

From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Perry, Bliss