 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 strani
...is but the other day, that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions un» der which we live ; constitutions of our own choice and making...mind, previous to the receipt of your letter of the first ultimo, had often been agitated by a thought similar to the one you expressed respecting a friend... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 strani
...conduct. It is but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we now live ;... constitutions of our own choice...unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The thing CHAP.H. is so unaccountable that I hardly know how to 1783 realize it ; or to persuade myself that... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 strani
...It is but the other da> that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions Under which we live — constitutions of our own choice and making...mind, previous to the receipt of your letter of the first ultimo, had often been agitated by a thought similar to the one you expressed respecting a friend... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 strani
...constitutions under which we live — constitutions of our own choice and making — and now we ^re unsheathing; the sword to overturn them. The thing...mind, previous to the receipt of your letter of the first ultimo, had often been agitated by a thought similar to the one you expressed respecting a friend... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1826 - 234 strani
...It is but the other day, that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we live ; constitutions of our own choice and making...we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The tiring is so unaccountable that I hardly know how to realize it ; or to persuade myself that I am not... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 558 strani
...It is but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we live — constitutions of our own choice and making....myself, that I am not under the illusion of a dream." In this alarming and almost desperate state of public affairs, the proposition of conferring upon congress... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 strani
...conduct. It is but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we now live— constitutions of our own choice...thing is so unaccountable, that I hardly know how to realise it, or to persuade myself that I am not under the illusion of a dream. " Happily for Washington,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1836 - 500 strani
...conduct. It is but the other day . that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we now live — constitutions of our own choice...mind, previous to the receipt of your letter of the first ultimo, L nad often been agitated by a thought similar to the one you expressed respecting an... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1839 - 292 strani
...over, had the prosecutions in other cases were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we now live; — constitutions of our own choice...we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them!" The sword was unsheathed. The insurgents attempted to dislodge Gen. Shepard from the arsenal at Springfield,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1840 - 216 strani
...conduct ? It was but the other day, that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we now live ; constitutions of our own choice...myself, that I am not under the illusion of a dream." * " We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience... | |
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What, gracious God, is man! that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct. It is but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we now live — constitutions of our own choice and... 
