 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...brethren. We must endeavor to forget our former love for them and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We might have been...open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation. We, therefore, the representatives... | |
 | Alexander Brown - Virginia - 1901 - 298 pages
...and amity with them ; but that submission to their Parliament was no part of our Constitution. . . . We might have been a free and a great people together...open to us too. We will tread it apart from them." Mr. Edward Rider, a member of the Patriot party in the Virginia Corporation, who had settled a plantation... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 628 pages
...freedom it seems is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness & to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and wemust acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal tiierefore r . , * and hold separation... | |
 | George Riddle - Readers - 1902 - 648 pages
...We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We might have been...open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation ! We, therefore, the representatives... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 592 pages
...We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We might have been...to us, too. We will tread it apart from them, and] acquiesce i the necessity which denounces our [eternal] separation [ ]! We therefore the representatives... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1903 - 600 pages
...We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We might have been...open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and]30 acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our [eternal]3' separation. We therefore the representatives... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 572 pages
...We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We might have been...dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to hap pi37 ness and to glory is open to us, too. We will tread it apart from them, and] acquiesce in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We might have been...great people together; but a communication of grandeur & of freedom it seems is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness... | |
 | Herbert Friedenwald - United States - 1904 - 330 pages
...friends. We might have been a free & a great people together; but a communication of grandeur &• of freedom it seems is below their dignity. Be it so since they will have it. The road to happiness & to glory is open to us too, we will climb it apart from 1 " And destroy us " added by Franklin. '... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Statesmen - 1905 - 334 pages
...We must endeavor to forget onr former love for them, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We might have been...to us, too. We will tread it apart from them, and] we must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our [eternal] separation and hold them... | |
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We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from... 
