| Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 488 Seiten
...will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world. "Place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the late war and our former harmony will be restored. "But, lest the same supineness, and the same inattention... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 376 Seiten
...will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world. Place us in the same situation that we were at the...last war, and our former harmony will be restored. But lest the same supineness, and the same inattention to our common interest, which you have for several... | |
| Willis Fletcher Johnson - 1916 - 598 Seiten
...to be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness. Place us in the same situation that we were in at the close of the last war, and our former harmony will be restored." Now Jay was not only one of the youngest and most intrepid men in the Congress. He was one of the most... | |
| Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - 1982 - 468 Seiten
...the crisis threatening the empire with a disastrous civil war was at hand and had only to be grasped. "Place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the last war," the First Continental Congress had urged the people of Great Britain, "and our former harmony will... | |
| Mary Lou Lustig - 1995 - 266 Seiten
...a right to take our property from us without our Consent." What colonists wanted was for Britons to "place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the last War, & our former harmony will be restord." 41 The declaration asserted that colonists, as British subjects,... | |
| Niall Ferguson - 2008 - 566 Seiten
...only at its conclusion that 'a plan for enslaving your fellow subjects in America was concerted . . . Place us in the same situation that we were at the...close of the last war, and our former harmony will be restored.'64 Yet this was a counterfactual substantially disproved by events, for the metropolitan... | |
| Eliga H. Gould, Peter S. Onuf - 2005 - 400 Seiten
...bound by the strongest ties: And were happy to being instrumental to your prosperity and grandeur." "Place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the last war," Congress concluded, "and our former harmony will be restored."12 For citizens of the independent United... | |
| J. Michael Waller - 2007 - 524 Seiten
...will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world. Place us in the same situation that we were at the...last war, and our former harmony will be restored. But lest the same supineness and the same inattention to our common interest which you have for several... | |
| Carlo Botta - 1826 - 430 Seiten
...shall never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any minister or nation in the world. ' Place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the war, and our former harmony wilr be restored. But lest the same supineness, and the same inattention... | |
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