 ... our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 2901836Full view - About this book
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 554 pages
...maintain the liberty which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. "That no man should scruple or hesitate a moment ta use arms in defense of so valuable a blessing is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 pages
...be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom." "That no man," he writes, "should scruple or hesitate a moment to use arms in...of so valuable a blessing, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource." The Virginia assembly, of which Washington... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry, Henry William Elson - 1905 - 372 pages
...peaceful methods failing his voice was for war. In 1769 he wrote with reference to civil liberty, " That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion." At a Virginia convention he... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 572 pages
...maintain the liberty which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment in defense of so valuable a blessing, is clearly my opinion ; yet arms should be the last resource... | |
 | John England - 1908 - 578 pages
...maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. "That...of so valuable a blessing, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource, the dernier resort. We have already,... | |
 | John England - 1908 - 546 pages
...liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpoie effectually, is the point in question. "That no man...of so valuable a blessing, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource, the dernier resort. We have already,... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 pages
...maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That...no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use a — ms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1910 - 490 pages
...maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That...to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris - 1910 - 492 pages
...maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That...to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 pages
...maintain the liberty which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it to answer the purpose effectually is the point in question. That...should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defense of so valuable a blessing, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should... | |
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