 | Thomas Baldwin - 1802 - 68 strani
...ago, when referring to the difficulties which finally terminated in the Independence of his country; " Our Fathers were a good people, we have been a free...and if you will not let us remain so any longer, we shall -be a great people."* Whether these words were written in the spirit of prophecy or not, they... | |
 | 1820 - 590 strani
...when referring to the difficulties which finally terminated in the Independence of his country ; " Our Fathers were a good people, we have been a free people, and if yoa will not let us remain so any longer, we shall be a great people."* Whether these words were written... | |
 | William Tudor - 1823 - 544 strani
...yourselves, but you cannot in the end ruin the colonies- — Our fathers were a good people^ we have beert- a free people, and if you will- not let us remain so any longer, we shall be a great people, and the* present measures can have no tendency but to hasten with great rapidity,... | |
 | Barnstable (Mass.) - 1840 - 158 strani
...history on his native soil, in 1839. " Our fathers (said he to a British advocate of the Stamp Act) were a good people, we have been a free people and if you will not let us remain so any longer, we shall be a great people." By Nathaniel Hinckley. The next Centennial — May it find our places filled... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 492 strani
...Britain than for the Colonies. You may ruin yourselves, but you cannot in the end ruin the Colonies. Our fathers were a good people; we have been a free...and if you will not let us remain so any longer, we shall be a great people, and the present measures can have no tendency but to hasten, with great rapidity,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 strani
...Act, elicited his denunciations, am who, with prophetic voice, had told his brethre m Great Britain, " Our fathers were a good people, we have been a free people, and if you wili not let us be so any longer, we shall be a great people," was now under a cloud. But his colleagues,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1857 - 702 strani
...at the head of this chapter. 1 Later than this [1768], Otis wrote to a friend in London, and said: " Our fathers were a good people ; we have been a free...and if you will not let us remain so any longer, we shall be a great people, and the present measures can have no tendency but to hasten witli great rapidity,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 strani
...at the head of this chapter. 1 Later than this [1768], Otis wrote to a friend in London, and said: "Our fathers were a good people ; we have been a free...and if you will not let us remain so any longer, we shall be a great people, and the present measures can have no tendency but to hasten with great rapidity,... | |
 | Winthrop Sargent - 1871 - 508 strani
...was yet to be trodden by their kindred. " Our fathers were a good people," wrote Otis to England ; " we have been a free people ; and if you will not let us remain so any longer, we will be a great people." Thus already prepared to resent the measures of 4 government, they derived... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1876 - 878 strani
...at the head of this chapter. 1 Later than this [1768], Otis wrote to a friend in London, and said: "Our fathers were a good people ; we have been a,...and if you will not let us remain so any longer, we shall be a great people, and the present measures can have no tendency but to hasten with great rapidity,... | |
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Our fathers were a good people; we have been a free people, and if you will not let us remain so any longer, we shall be a great people, and the present measures can have no tendency but to hasten, with great rapidity, events which every good and honest... 
