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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... excellencies in this select neighborhood . Lawless tressing scene , and with the assistance of the ambition is without a friend , and the insinuating selfish passions , it would end in the ruin and professional pleas of tyrants , ever ...
... excellencies in this select neighborhood . Lawless tressing scene , and with the assistance of the ambition is without a friend , and the insinuating selfish passions , it would end in the ruin and professional pleas of tyrants , ever ...
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... first upon the disinterested conduct of this exalted patriot . the list.- * Rollin , View him in his private station , and here , as diligent though Providence , for his excellencies , had select 44 PRINCIPLES AND ACTS OF THE REVOLUTION .
... first upon the disinterested conduct of this exalted patriot . the list.- * Rollin , View him in his private station , and here , as diligent though Providence , for his excellencies , had select 44 PRINCIPLES AND ACTS OF THE REVOLUTION .
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Hezekiah Niles. diligent though Providence , for his excellencies , had select - spirit of this great people , let us not be as ed him for her own from the extensive circle of o catch their vices Such conduct is inconsistent humanity ...
Hezekiah Niles. diligent though Providence , for his excellencies , had select - spirit of this great people , let us not be as ed him for her own from the extensive circle of o catch their vices Such conduct is inconsistent humanity ...
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... excellency JOHN ADAMS , esq . minister again to exhibit thy glorious wounds , and through plenipotentiary at the Hague , dated Leyden , April them proclaim salvation to thy country ! or art thou 19 , 1781 . come to demand that last debt ...
... excellency JOHN ADAMS , esq . minister again to exhibit thy glorious wounds , and through plenipotentiary at the Hague , dated Leyden , April them proclaim salvation to thy country ! or art thou 19 , 1781 . come to demand that last debt ...
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... excellencies of all forms of government , free from the inconve- Judge Drayton's Charge . niences of each ; and in one word , we bid fair to be At an adjournment of the court of GENERAL SES . the happiest and freest people in the world ...
... excellencies of all forms of government , free from the inconve- Judge Drayton's Charge . niences of each ; and in one word , we bid fair to be At an adjournment of the court of GENERAL SES . the happiest and freest people in the world ...
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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...