 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 pages
...the case of the Tories of our own Revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines, or old laws ; but to break up both, and make new ones. As to the country now in question, we bought it of France in 1803, ;ind sold it to Spain in 1819, according... | |
 | Reinder Van Til, Gordon L. Olson - 2007 - 417 pages
...Mississippi River and I heard him say when he saw a slave sold on the block at New Orleans: "By God, if ever I get a chance to hit that thing, I'll hit it and hit it hard." Early I learned to chant: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth... | |
 | Edward SteersJr. - 2007 - 283 pages
...upon witnessing a slave auction at New Orleans, the young Lincoln had righteously vowed: "By God . . . If ever I get a chance to hit that thing, I'll hit it hard."5 The only problem was that Hanks never accompanied Lincoln to the Crescent City and could never... | |
 | 1898 - 730 pages
...the case of the Tories of our own Revolution. It Is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines, or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones." Continuing he said: "As a nation should not, and the Almighty will not be evaded, so let him (the President)... | |
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Such minority was precisely the case of the Tories of our own Revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines, or old laws ; but to break up both, and make new ones. 
