| Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 páginas
...invented a debate between an opponent of the document and Adams. "Let us pause!" said the opponent. "This step, once taken, cannot be retraced. This resolution,...once passed, will cut off all hope of reconciliation. For ourselves, we may be ready to run the hazard; but are we ready to carry the country to that length?... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1885 - 504 páginas
...speeches were on the resolution, and not on the Declaration, is evident from the opening sentence, "Let us pause! This step, once taken, cannot be retraced....passed, will cut off all hope of reconciliation." — Works, vol. ip 132. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Webster, « writing, in 1846, to one who had inquired... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1885 - 502 páginas
...speeches were on the resolution, and not on the Declaration, is evident from the opening sentence, "Let us pause! This step, once taken, cannot be retraced. This resolution, onix passed, will cut offall hope of reconciliation." — IIV/.-s, vol. ip 132. Notwithstanding this,... | |
| Daniel Webster - 590 páginas
...one of those not yet prepared to pronounce for absolute independence is on the floor, and is urging his reasons for dissenting from the declaration. "...privileges ; these will all be forfeited by this act ; and we shall be in the condition of other conquered paople, at the mercy of the conquerors. For ourselves,... | |
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