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 - 495 pages |
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... taken away , so long as it is taken without states ; some of which have now scarce a name ! our consent ; and I am very much at a loss to know their baneful influence is most suddenly felt , when by what figure of rhetoric , the ...
... taken away , so long as it is taken without states ; some of which have now scarce a name ! our consent ; and I am very much at a loss to know their baneful influence is most suddenly felt , when by what figure of rhetoric , the ...
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... taken away with- mild than an immediate recourse to the sword . out our consent - if we complain , our complaints are With united efforts you urged the immediate de - treated with contempt ; if we assert our rights , that parture of the ...
... taken away with- mild than an immediate recourse to the sword . out our consent - if we complain , our complaints are With united efforts you urged the immediate de - treated with contempt ; if we assert our rights , that parture of the ...
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... taken at Trenton . But so full a confidence do I possess in his invio- lable attachment to the rights of humanity and the cause of freedom , that in some future emergencias of the state ( produced perhaps by the shifting for . tune of ...
... taken at Trenton . But so full a confidence do I possess in his invio- lable attachment to the rights of humanity and the cause of freedom , that in some future emergencias of the state ( produced perhaps by the shifting for . tune of ...
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... taken first sacrifice to tyranny and usurpation , is noble , singly and merely as a profession , is justly an object generous and humane . Such are the sentiments of jealousy . The laws , therefore , and constitution that influence you ...
... taken first sacrifice to tyranny and usurpation , is noble , singly and merely as a profession , is justly an object generous and humane . Such are the sentiments of jealousy . The laws , therefore , and constitution that influence you ...
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... taken in every view , that was not a spectator , can soul . You , my countrymen , with the most pleasing conceive it . When I consider the many insults , sensations , haye attentively listened , while , like abuses and violences , this ...
... taken in every view , that was not a spectator , can soul . You , my countrymen , with the most pleasing conceive it . When I consider the many insults , sensations , haye attentively listened , while , like abuses and violences , this ...
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Page 294 - 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.
Page 294 - 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.
Page 338 - ... 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.
Page 369 - 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.
Page 295 - 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...
Page 107 - 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...
Page 338 - 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...
Page 337 - 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.
Page 337 - 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.
Page 338 - 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...