 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 the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?  African Repository and Colonial Journal - Stran 441830Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 strani
...seen to labor. And can the libertics of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, — a conviction in the minds of the people that these libertics are the gift of God ? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I... | |
 | 1862 - 490 strani
...Jefferson, though a Deist and a slave-owner, said in his ' Notes on Virginia:' — 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep for ever ; that an exchange of situations is among possible events ; that it may become probable by... | |
 | Fitzwilliam Sargent - 1863 - 140 strani
...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 the gift of God—that they are not to be violated but by His wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect... | |
 | 1897 - 678 strani
...destroyed. . . . 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? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
 | William D. Jones - 1864 - 276 strani
...patria of the other ! Can the liberties of the nation bB thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis — a conviction in the minds of the people...liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not violated but by his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and his... | |
 | James William Massie - 1864 - 134 strani
...that they are not left to the guidance of a blind fatality." " I tremble for my country," he said, " when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep for ever. The Almighty has no attributes that could take sides with us in such a contest as between... | |
 | Jacob Richards Dodge - 1865 - 284 strani
...as follows : " 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...when I reflect that God is just; that his justice can^ not sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - 1865 - 818 strani
...their only firm basis, — a conviction in the minds of tJie people that their liberties are the gifts of God, that they are not to be violated but with...God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." Prophetic words ! fully and most emphatically verified in the history of the causes which produced,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 88 strani
...could overcome, and, after vain wrestlings, the words that broke from him, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 110 strani
...could overcome, and, after vain wrestlings, the words that broke from him, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery... | |
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