 | John Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 468 pages
...vicissitudes of human affairs, great as »hc is, she may want ; her interests, as she thinly ( 547 ) To return to the charge against us, we can safely appeal to that Being, from \vhom no thought can be concealed, that our warmest wish and utmost ambition is, that we and our posterity... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 574 pages
...these Colonies] and a tolal independence on her. As well we know the accusation to be utterly false. We can safely appeal to that Being, from whom no thought...affection dictates, our duty commands, and our interest enforces." Washington, as late as October, 1774, writes to a friend in Boston as follows : " I was... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - History - 1875 - 836 pages
...freeman. Strange contradiction.! The same kingdom at the same time, the asylum and the bane of liberty. To return to the charge against us we can safely appeal...our posterity may ever remain subordinate to, and dependant upon our parent state. This submission our reason approves, our affection dictates, our duty... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...freemen. Strange contradiction. The same kingdom at the same time, the asylum and the bane of liberty. To return to the charge against us, we can safely...affection dictates, our duty commands, and our interest enforces. If this submission indeed implies a dissolution of our constitution, and a renunciation of... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - History - 1890 - 754 pages
...Great Britain, as if these numerous provinces, much more remote from her than Egypt from Rome, were of To return to the charge against us we can safely appeal to that Being, from no thought can be concealed, that our warmest wish and utmost ambition is, that we and our posterity... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1897 - 568 pages
...freemen. Strange contradiction! The same kingdom, at the same time, the asylum and the bane of liberty! " To return to the charge against us, we can safely...subordinate to, and dependent upon, our parent state. 1 This submission our reason approves, our affection dictates, our duty commands, and our interest... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 576 pages
...these Colonies] and a total independence on her. As well we know the accusation to be utterly false. We can safely appeal to that Being, from whom no thought...affection dictates, our duty commands, and our interest enforces." Washington, as late as October, 1774, writes to a friend in Boston as follows : " I was... | |
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Strange contradiction. The same kingdom at the same time, the asylum and the bane of liberty. To return to the charge against us, we can safely appeal to that Being, from whom no thought can be concealed, that our warmest wish and utmost ambition is,... 