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... bodies of her guiltless sons ! Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear : let not the heaving bosom cease to burn with a manly indigna- tion at the barbarous story through the long tracts of future time : let every parent ...
... bodies of her guiltless sons ! Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear : let not the heaving bosom cease to burn with a manly indigna- tion at the barbarous story through the long tracts of future time : let every parent ...
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... body ; look on his haggard eyes ; mark well the death - like paleness on his fallen cheek , and tell me , does not the sight plant daggers in your souls ? Unhappy Monk ! cut off , in the gay morn of manhood , from all the joys which ...
... body ; look on his haggard eyes ; mark well the death - like paleness on his fallen cheek , and tell me , does not the sight plant daggers in your souls ? Unhappy Monk ! cut off , in the gay morn of manhood , from all the joys which ...
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... body . " He was chosen governor of South Carolina and commander - in - chief of its military forces in 1779 , and at the close of the struggle with the mother country he again sat in Congress and was one of the framers of the federal ...
... body . " He was chosen governor of South Carolina and commander - in - chief of its military forces in 1779 , and at the close of the struggle with the mother country he again sat in Congress and was one of the framers of the federal ...
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... body of men can , without being guilty of flagrant injustice , claim a right to dis- pose of the persons or acquisitions of any other man or body of men unless it can be proved that such a right has arisen from some compact between the ...
... body of men can , without being guilty of flagrant injustice , claim a right to dis- pose of the persons or acquisitions of any other man or body of men unless it can be proved that such a right has arisen from some compact between the ...
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... body which so late he saw vigorous and warm with social mirth ; hither let me lead the tender mother to weep over her beloved son come , widowed mourner , here satiate thy grief ; behold thy murdered husband gasping on the ground , and ...
... body which so late he saw vigorous and warm with social mirth ; hither let me lead the tender mother to weep over her beloved son come , widowed mourner , here satiate thy grief ; behold thy murdered husband gasping on the ground , and ...
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Page 2734 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 2732 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 2732 - And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Page 2717 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 2814 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath. Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks. And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 2768 - defines the extent of the powers of the general government. If the general legislature should, at any time, overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check. If the United States go beyond their powers, if they make a law which the Constitution does not authorize, it is void ; and the judiciary power, the national judges, who, to secure their impartiality, are to be made independent, will declare it to be void.
Page 2731 - ... undertaking. Utterly indeed should I despair, did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me, that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal, on which to rely under all difficulties. To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which...
Page 2747 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 3047 - But an evil day came upon us. Your forefathers crossed the great waters and landed on this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends and not enemies. They told us they had fled from their own country for fear of wicked men, and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat. We took pity on them, granted their request and they sat down amongst us. We gave them corn and meat.
Page 2810 - I have returned, — not as the right honorable member has said, to raise another storm, — I have returned to discharge an honorable debt of gratitude to my country, that conferred a great reward for' past services, which, I am proud to say, was not greater than my desert.