| William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...of being " honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will " give you credit where you fail." " The God who gave " us life, gave us liberty at the...This, sire, " is our last, our determined resolution." In 1775, the conciliatory proposition of lord North reached this country. This proposition, according... | |
| Nicholas Biddle - 1827 - 62 pages
...exclude us from " going to other markets to dispose of those commodities " vvhici they cannot use or to supply those wants which " they cannot supply....disjoin " them. This, sire, is our last, our determined resolu" tion." The reputation acquired by this production, naturally directed the eyes of the legislature... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 526 pages
...our wish nor our interest to separate from her. We are willing, on our part, to sacrifice every thing which reason can ask, to the restoration of that tranquillity...gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force •nay destroy, but cannot disjoin them. This, Sire, is our last, our determined resolution. And that... | |
| Statesmen - 1829 - 432 pages
...to exclude us from going to other markets to dispose of those commodities which they cannot use, or to supply those wants which they cannot supply. Still...This, sire, is our last, our determined resolution." The reputation acquired by this production, naturally directed the eyes of the legislature towards... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...proposed, that our properties, within our own territories, shall be taxed or regulated by any pov- - er on earth, but our own. The God who gave us life, gave...us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may dtestroy, but cannot disjoin them. This, Sire, is our last, our determined resolution. And that you... | |
| United States - 1834 - 426 pages
...to exclude us from going to other markets to dispose of those commodities which they cannot use, or to supply those wants which they cannot supply. Still...This, sire, is our last, our determined resolution." The reputation acquired by this production, naturally directed the eyes of the legislature towards... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...creed which he dictated to Congress, one year after, and they so undauntedly promulgated to the world. 'The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at "the same time,' was first ; 'the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them,' was last. The ' hand of force'... | |
| George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 636 pages
...ask, to the restoration of that tranquillity for which all must wish. On their part, let them name the terms, but let them be just — accept of every commercial...of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.''* Some of the positions taken by Mr. Jefferson in this exposition of his country's wrongs, were scarcely... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 564 pages
...ask to the restoration of that tranquillity for which all must wish. On their part, let them name the terms, but let them be just — accept of every commercial...hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." ' The Virginian Convention adopted another set of Instructions, — equally firm, but more moderate,... | |
| 1838 - 556 pages
...they cannot use, nor to supply those wants which they cannot supply. Still less, let it be supposed that our properties, within our own territories, shall...hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." ' The Virginian Convention adopted another set of Instructions, — equally linn, but more moderate,... | |
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