The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President of the State of Delaware, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Volumen2Bonsal and Niles, 1801 |
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... true ; but it was the indignation of a virtuous , loy- al , and affectionate people . A congress of delegates from the united colonies was assembled at Phila- delphia , on the fifth day of last September . We resolved again to offer an ...
... true ; but it was the indignation of a virtuous , loy- al , and affectionate people . A congress of delegates from the united colonies was assembled at Phila- delphia , on the fifth day of last September . We resolved again to offer an ...
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... true friends to their country , for pre- venting an extension of the mischiefs that have al- ready flowed from that source . AMERICA , without arms , ammunition , disci- pline , revenue , government or ally , almost totally stript of ...
... true friends to their country , for pre- venting an extension of the mischiefs that have al- ready flowed from that source . AMERICA , without arms , ammunition , disci- pline , revenue , government or ally , almost totally stript of ...
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... true to ourselves , without being true to others -- that to love not ourselves only , but ( 90 )
... true to ourselves , without being true to others -- that to love not ourselves only , but ( 90 )
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... True it is , that to guard against disorder and danger , the line dividing between the powers of the several states , and the powers of the union , ought to be drawn with the utmost accuracy of direction , and established by the ...
... True it is , that to guard against disorder and danger , the line dividing between the powers of the several states , and the powers of the union , ought to be drawn with the utmost accuracy of direction , and established by the ...
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... true friends of their country , and unless counteracted by the follies of Pharsalia , or the accidents of Philippi , may secure the blessings of freedom to succeeding ages . • IT has been contended , that the plan proposed to to us ...
... true friends of their country , and unless counteracted by the follies of Pharsalia , or the accidents of Philippi , may secure the blessings of freedom to succeeding ages . • IT has been contended , that the plan proposed to to us ...
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Página 100 - Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, " Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body?
Página 230 - Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights, you accepted the sacred charge before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without friends or a government to support you. " You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Página 284 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Página 42 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Página 12 - The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
Página 105 - ... there can be but one supreme power which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet, the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
Página 130 - I think I see the royal state of boroughs, walking their desolate streets, hanging down their heads under disappointments ; wormed out of all the branches of their old trade, uncertain what hand to turn to ; necessitated to become apprentices to their unkind neighbours ; and yet, after all, finding their trade so fortified by companies, and secured by prescriptions, that they despair of any success therein.
Página 224 - Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore ; As thine, Andromache ! thy griefs I dread ; I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led...
Página 94 - The fact therefore must be that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government; and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.
Página 363 - The progress of the enormous debts which at present oppress, and will in the long run probably ruin, all the great nations of Europe...