 What, gracious God, is man that there should be such inconsistency, and perfidiousness in his conduct! It was but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the Constitutions under which we now live, and now we are unsheathing our swords...  Transactions - Page 41by American Foundrymen's Society - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...we now live— constitutions of our own choice and -making? and now, we .are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The 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,... | |
 | François Guizot - Presidents - 1840 - 262 pages
...which we now live ; constitutions of our own choice and making ; and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The 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*." " We have probably... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 pages
...under which wo live ; constitutions of our own choice and making ; and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The thing is so unaccountable that...it ; or to persuade myself that I am not under the ilnsion of a dream. My mind, previous to the receipt of your letter of the first ultimo Vol. II. f... | |
 | 1848 - 544 pages
...we now live — constitutions of our own choice and making — and now, we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The thing is so unaccountable, that I hardly know how to realize it ; or to persuade my. self that I am not under the illusion of a dream. " My mind, previous to the receipt of your letter... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1853 - 466 pages
...under which we live ; constitutions of our own choice and making ; and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The thing is so unaccountable that...know how to realize it ; or to persuade myself that 1 am not under the ilusion of a dream. My mind, provious to the receipt of your letter of the first... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...which we now live ; constitutions of our own choice and making ; and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The thing is so unaccountable, that...realize it, or to persuade myself that I am not under tha illusiou of a dream." His letters to Knox show the trouble of his mind. " I feel, my dear General... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...under which wo live ; constitutions of our own choice and making ; and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The thing is so unaccountable that...know how to realize it ; or to persuade myself that 1 am not under the ;.ilusion of a dream. My mind, previous to the receiot of your letter of the first... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1858 - 468 pages
...under which wo live ; constitutions of our own choice and makmg ; and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The thing is so unaccountable that...it ; or to persuade myself that I am not under the ;.ilusion of a dream. My mind, prorious to the receint of your letter of the first ultimo Vol. II 7... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Democracy - 1885 - 462 pages
...which we now live—constitutions of our own choice and making; and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them ! The 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." It was under the influence... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 318 pages
...wrote to a friend, " that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct? . . . The thing is so unaccountable that I hardly know how...it, or to persuade myself that I am not under the influence of a dream." His friend Greene, he thought, was " happy in his death, since he did not live... | |
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