The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution: Including the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Two Hundred and Forty Three of the Sages and Heroes are Presented in Due Form and Many Others are Named IncidentallyMoss & Brother, 1854 - 480 páginas |
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... happy influence upon the sons and daughters of freemen , undisturbed by canons or feuds . " Tyranny has again commenced its desolating course - it must be arrested or we are slaves . " This is a mere syllabus of a pamphlet of over forty ...
... happy influence upon the sons and daughters of freemen , undisturbed by canons or feuds . " Tyranny has again commenced its desolating course - it must be arrested or we are slaves . " This is a mere syllabus of a pamphlet of over forty ...
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... happy - enjoying the full fruition of divine grace which had produced the green foliage of piety through a long life - political animosities buried in oblivion - his now frail bark glided smoothly down the stream of time until the ...
... happy - enjoying the full fruition of divine grace which had produced the green foliage of piety through a long life - political animosities buried in oblivion - his now frail bark glided smoothly down the stream of time until the ...
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... happy land and transmitted the rich behest to their children . With the principles of rational liberty each succeeding generation was made familiar . When tyranny reared its hydra head , the monster was readily recognized . The people ...
... happy land and transmitted the rich behest to their children . With the principles of rational liberty each succeeding generation was made familiar . When tyranny reared its hydra head , the monster was readily recognized . The people ...
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... greatness with an honest pride . He had seen her sons writhing under the lash of oppression and their bones bleaching in the field . He now beheld the people independent , prosperous , virtuous and happy 30 THE SAGES AND HEROES.
... greatness with an honest pride . He had seen her sons writhing under the lash of oppression and their bones bleaching in the field . He now beheld the people independent , prosperous , virtuous and happy 30 THE SAGES AND HEROES.
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... happy . He could now be gathered peacefully to his fathers when his time should arrive to depart . Age and infirmity compelled him to retire from the great theatre of public life where he had been so long conspicuous . His health ...
... happy . He could now be gathered peacefully to his fathers when his time should arrive to depart . Age and infirmity compelled him to retire from the great theatre of public life where he had been so long conspicuous . His health ...
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Página 147 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Página 468 - I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations; but if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended...
Página 190 - The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith — the text of civic instruction — the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we wander from them, in moments of error or alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
Página 147 - We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Página 16 - ... Resolved, That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Página 468 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Página 468 - ... facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember especially that for the efficient management of your common interests in a country so extensive as ours a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable.
Página 25 - Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?
Página 147 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.
Página 8 - Soon after the Reformation, a few People came over into this new world for conscience sake. Perhaps this, apparently, trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me.