 | George Pellew - Judges - 1890 - 404 pages
...Convention and Committees were unsupported by the people. There seems, therefore, no reason that one Colony should be too precipitate in changing the present mode of government. I would first be well assured of the opinion of the inhabitants at large. Let them be rather followed... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - United States - 1899 - 418 pages
...and hated to see anything like unreasonable haste in action. "There seems no reason," he said, "that our colony should be too precipitate in changing the present mode of government. I would first be well assured of the opinion of the inhabitants at large. Let them be rather followed... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - 1910 - 506 pages
...opinion are discernible. Duane represented one extreme. ' ' There seems no reason, ' ' he wrote May 18, "why our colony should be too precipitate in changing the present mode of government." Let the people "be rather followed than driven on an occasion of such moment. But. above all, let us... | |
 | Democracy - 1941 - 120 pages
...MOMENTS IN FREEDOM, Lansing, p. 109. "What I Do, I Do Freely for Liberty" "There seems no reason that our colony should be too precipitate in changing the present mode of government," said John Jay when the move for independence was being discussed. "I would first be well assured of... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1942 - 678 pages
...Moments in Freedom, Lansing, p. 109. "What I Do, I Do Freely for Liberty" , "There seems no reason that our colony should be too precipitate in changing the present mode of government," said John Jay when the move for independence was being discussed. "I would first be well assured of... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1942 - 694 pages
...MOMENTS IN FREEDOM, Lansing, p. 109. "What I Do, I Do Freely for Liberty" "There seems no reason that our colony should be too precipitate in changing the present mode of government," said John Jay when the move for independence was being discussed. "I would first be well assured of... | |
 | Walter Stahr - History - 2005 - 520 pages
...evidently believed that Jay would have opposed it as well, wrote him that there was "no reason that our colony should be too precipitate in changing the present mode of government."81 When the Provincial Congress took up the recommendation, Jay's friend Morris gave a... | |
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Moments in Freedom, Lansing, p. 109. "What I Do, I Do Freely for Liberty" , "There seems no reason that our colony should be too precipitate in changing the present mode of government," said John Jay when the move for independence was being discussed.... 