 | Pennsylvania - 1836 - 440 pages
...Virginia: " At a time when our fordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than a deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary...our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer lite purpose effectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple or hesitate a moment... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1835 - 472 pages
...•' At a time when our lordly masters in Great Britain will b« satisfied with nothing less than a deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary...from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to anfwer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. 1 hat no man should scruple or hesitate a... | |
 | Horace Binney - Judges - 1835 - 74 pages
...to his friend George Mason, who afterwards drafted the first constitution of Virginia : "At a time when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than a deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1840 - 354 pages
...doubt, as to his sense of the matter, and the ground he was prepared to take. "At a time," said he, "when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be...But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose eifectually, is the point in question. " That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 pages
...doubt, as to his sense of the matter, and the ground he was prepared to take. "At a time," said he, "when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be...avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty, which wTe have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1855 - 420 pages
...tempered yet cheered and animated those around him. " Our lordly masters in Great Britain," said he, "will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom. Something should be done to maintain the liberty which wo have derived from our ancestors. No man should... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 566 pages
...Philadelphia. Washington's letter is emphatic in support of the measure. " At a time," writes he, " when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied...derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, o ' to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple, or hesitate... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1871 - 240 pages
...known. To WILLIAM RAMSAY, January 29, 1709. 2 Sparks, 350. 8. HIS OPPOSITION TO THE STAMP ACT. T a time when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied...But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose cil'ectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...and just a man to take up arms in the cause of revolt. In 1769 he wrote to a friend: — "At a time when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied...which we have derived from our ancestors. But the point of doing it so as to answer the purpose effectually is the point in question. That no man should... | |
 | Washington Irving - Children's literature - 1876 - 766 pages
...of Philadelphia. Washington's letter is emphatic in support of the measure. "At a time," writes he, "when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be...highly necessary that something should be done to avert tlie stroke, and maintain tin: liberty which \ve have derived from our ancestors." Mason, in his reply,... | |
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At a time when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty which we have derived... 
