 Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them, that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to...  Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 - Stran 143avtor: United States. Continental Congress - 1906Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 strani
...Congress also passed a Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms, in which it proclaimed "that we mean not to dissolve that union which has...us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." Like the other delegates, Franklin agreed for the sake of consensus to sign the Olive Branch Petition.... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - 653 strani
...but after declaring, "Our cause is just. Our union is perfect," it made a final conciliatory gesture: "Lest this Declaration should disquiet the Minds of...which has so long and so happily subsisted between us" (Jefferson 1950, i: 217). Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration had been softened in... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1893 - 834 strani
...few weeks after the battle of Bunker Hill : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of onr friends and fellow subjects in any part of the empire,...between us and which we sincerely wish to see restored. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain and establishing... | |
 | Alden Bradford - 1825 - 384 strani
...a right to receive from us. — We however, assure our fellow subjects in every part of the Empire, that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to be restored. We have not raised armies with ambitious... | |
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