 | Joseph Crane Hartzell - 1888 - 286 страници
...revealed the controlling force when he said : " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when wo have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in...the minds of the people that these liberties are the gifts of God ? that they are not to be violated except with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 698 страници
...a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be deemed secure when we have removed their only firm basis,...the gift of God, that they are not to be violated without his wrath f Indeed, I tremble for my country [Virginia] when I reflect that God is just ; that... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 страници
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my... | |
 | James Schouler - 1893 - 266 страници
...with which slavery cursed already the master race. "And can the liberties of a nation," he adds, " be thought secure when we have removed their only...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 страници
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my... | |
 | John Fiske - 1897 - 462 страници
...proprietors of slaves a very small proportion, indeed, are ever seen to labour. And can the liberties of the nation be thought secure when we have removed their...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1898 - 434 страници
...him." He then adds this alarming suggestion, which has been often repeated since his day : " And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898 - 268 страници
...of the people their industry also is destroyed. . . . And can the liberties of a nation be '.bought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis,...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 страници
...earliest and most earnest opponents of slavery. Already in his *' Notes on Virginia" he had written : "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we...a conviction in the minds of the people that these libertiesare the gift of God, that they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble... | |
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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? 
