The Library of American BiographyJared Sparks Hilliard, Gray, 1848 |
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Sida 229 - They tell us, Sir, that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week or the next year ? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house...
Sida 229 - and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation ? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love ? 2.
Sida 211 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them, and are equally affected by such taxes themselves, is the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution cannot subsist.
Sida 229 - Trust it not, sir ; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.
Sida 229 - I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do, opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.
Sida 158 - April, one thousand six hundred and eightytwo, in virtue of the commission of his Majesty, which I hold in my hand, and which may be seen by all whom it may concern, have taken, and do now take, in the name of his Majesty and of his...
Sida 229 - This is no time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.
Sida 214 - Wythe, and all the old members, whose influence in the house had, till then, been unbroken They did it, not from any question of our rights, but on the ground that the same sentiments had been, at their preceding session, expressed in a more conciliatory form, to which the answers were not yet received.
Sida 229 - ... already expired, and others will shortly be so ; and that the known remissness of government in calling us together in legislative capacity, renders it too insecure, in this time of danger and distress, to rely, that opportunity will be given of renewing them, in general assembly, or making any provision to secure our inestimable rights and liberties from those further violations with which they are threatened.
Sida 242 - Sir, they see something still more attractive than all this — they see a land in which liberty hath taken up her abode — that liberty, whom they had considered as a fabled goddess, existing only in the fancies of poets — they see her here a real divinity — her altars rising on every hand throughout these happy states — her gloriea PATRICK HENRY. chanted by three millions of tongues — and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence.