A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the revolutionary period,1765-1787Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz W. E. Benjamin, 1894 |
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... wish well - meaning , sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive , assuming manner , that seldom fails to disgust , tends to create opposition , and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was ...
... wish well - meaning , sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive , assuming manner , that seldom fails to disgust , tends to create opposition , and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was ...
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... wishes the welfare of his subjects . If you send them learned and upright men for judges , they will think him a lover of justice . This may attach your provinces more to his govern- ment . You are therefore to be careful whom you ...
... wishes the welfare of his subjects . If you send them learned and upright men for judges , they will think him a lover of justice . This may attach your provinces more to his govern- ment . You are therefore to be careful whom you ...
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... wish to renounce it . 6. To confirm these impressions , and strike them deeper , whenever the injured come to the capital with complaints of mal - administration , oppression , or injustice , punish such suitors with long delay ...
... wish to renounce it . 6. To confirm these impressions , and strike them deeper , whenever the injured come to the capital with complaints of mal - administration , oppression , or injustice , punish such suitors with long delay ...
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... wish it were more productive of good works , than I have generally seen it ; I mean real good works ; works of kindness , charity , mercy , and public spirit ; not holiday - keeping , sermon - reading or hear- ing ; performing church ...
... wish it were more productive of good works , than I have generally seen it ; I mean real good works ; works of kindness , charity , mercy , and public spirit ; not holiday - keeping , sermon - reading or hear- ing ; performing church ...
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... wish to such more humility , and to you health and happiness , being your friend and servant , B. FRANKLIN , PHILADELPHIA , June , 1753 . TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY , WITH A METHOD OF DECIDING DOUBTFUL MATTERS . IN the affair of so much ...
... wish to such more humility , and to you health and happiness , being your friend and servant , B. FRANKLIN , PHILADELPHIA , June , 1753 . TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY , WITH A METHOD OF DECIDING DOUBTFUL MATTERS . IN the affair of so much ...
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Seite 167 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Seite 286 - He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Seite 221 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Seite 142 - He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.
Seite 168 - It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Seite 165 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Seite 167 - In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Seite 286 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 36 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 168 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists, under different shapes, in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.