 Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, But it is our duty to leave liberty to them. No infamy, iniquity...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 2461829Full view - About this book
 | John Dickinson - Great Britain - 1774 - 168 pages
...overwhelmed with all the miseries and vices, proved by the history of mankind to be inseparably annexed to that deplorable condition : or, if they have sense...involved in an opposition dreadful even in contemplation. Honour, justice and humanlty call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty,... | |
 | John Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 468 pages
...perdition, they must be involved in an opposition dreadful even in contemplation. ( 312 ) \ Honour, justice and humanity call upon us to hold, and to...It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children : but it is our duty, to leave liberty to them. No infamy, iniquity, or cruelty, can exceed our own,... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 374 pages
...the colonists will sink from the rank of freemen into the class of slaves, or if they have strength and virtue enough to exert themselves in striving to avoid this perdition, they most be involved in an opposition dreadful even in contemplation:' It may be inferred that Mr. Smith... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...Overwhelmed with all the miseries and vices, proved by the history of mankind to be inseparably annexed to that deplorable condition — or, if they have sense...It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. No infamy, iniquity, or cruelty, can exceed our own, if... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...overwhelmed with all the miseries and vices, proved by the history of mankind to be inseparably annexed to that deplorable condition — or, if they have sense...opposition, dreadful even in contemplation. Honor, juitice, and humanity call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...proved by the history of mankind to be inseparably annexed to tliat deplorable condition — or, if tbey have sense and virtue enough to exert themselves in...opposition, dreadful even in contemplation. Honor, jtutice, and humanity call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1829 - 442 pages
...overwlielmed with all the miseries and vices, proved by the history of mankind to be inseparably annexed to that deplorable condition : Or, if they have sense...It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children: But it is our duty to leave liberty to them. No infamy, iniquity, or cruelty, can exceed our own, if... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - Pennsylvania - 1829 - 658 pages
...overwhelmed with all the miseries and vices proved by the history of mankind to be inseparably annexed to that deplorable condition; or, if they have sense...in an opposition dreadful even in contemplation." "Honour, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...convention in a body. The following extract shows the spirit that animated the patriots of that day : " Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold,...It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. No infamy, iniquity, or cruelty can exceed our own, if... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - Declaration of Independence - 1846 - 900 pages
...the colonists will sink from the rank of freemen into the class of slaves, or if they have strength and virtue enough to exert themselves in striving...in an opposition dreadful even in contemplation.'-' It may be inferred that Mr. Smith was either less disposed than a majority of the committee to entertain... | |
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