Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect and Preserve Some of the Speeches, Orations, & Proceedings, with Sketches and Remarks on Men and Things, and Other Fugitive Or Neglected Pieces, Belonging to the Men of the Revolutionary Period in the United States ...Printed and pub. for the editor, by W.O. Niles, 1822 - 495페이지 |
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... empire , 248 ; reply of the same to gov . Martin's speech 0 . 477 Pennsylvania - Brackenridge's eulogium 119 ; proceedings at Philadelphia about certain teas imported 170 ; address of a convention of county committees , 1774 , 175 ...
... empire , 248 ; reply of the same to gov . Martin's speech 0 . 477 Pennsylvania - Brackenridge's eulogium 119 ; proceedings at Philadelphia about certain teas imported 170 ; address of a convention of county committees , 1774 , 175 ...
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... empire , expressly militates with their avowed principles : property and residence within the island , alone constituting the right of election ; and surely he is not my delegate in whose nomination or appoint ment I have no choice ...
... empire , expressly militates with their avowed principles : property and residence within the island , alone constituting the right of election ; and surely he is not my delegate in whose nomination or appoint ment I have no choice ...
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... empire ; Goo grant he may attend murderers , redoubles our resentment , and makes . to the reiterated prayer , instead of the murmur of revenge a virtue . discontent , and the frown of louring disaffection ; we would universally hail ...
... empire ; Goo grant he may attend murderers , redoubles our resentment , and makes . to the reiterated prayer , instead of the murmur of revenge a virtue . discontent , and the frown of louring disaffection ; we would universally hail ...
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... empire of Great Britain ? and arms . No ; them we despised ; we dread nothing must I be compelled to acknowledge , that even but slavery . Death is the creature of a poltroon's the noblest , fairest part of all the lower creation ...
... empire of Great Britain ? and arms . No ; them we despised ; we dread nothing must I be compelled to acknowledge , that even but slavery . Death is the creature of a poltroon's the noblest , fairest part of all the lower creation ...
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... empire which any part of our property , is directly repugnant to should extend from one end of the earth to the every principle of reason and natural justice . But other : he saw , or thought he saw , the British na- I may boldly say ...
... empire which any part of our property , is directly repugnant to should extend from one end of the earth to the every principle of reason and natural justice . But other : he saw , or thought he saw , the British na- I may boldly say ...
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294 페이지 - I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir. It will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.
294 페이지 - No, Sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them ? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
338 페이지 - ... fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.
369 페이지 - The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts : and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts.
295 페이지 - Peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle...
107 페이지 - That government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community ; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of mal-administration...
338 페이지 - I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...
337 페이지 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action ; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
337 페이지 - On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
338 페이지 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential agency...