 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...gooa hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night,...But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night,...But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror....But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of 323 the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of 323 •,lio tJnion. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night,...But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 624 pages
...in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But the momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror....indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I conquered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed,...But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and Held... | |
 | United States - 1849 - 604 pages
...the night, has awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Uuiun. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived, and held... | |
 | United States - 1849 - 606 pages
...he, "like afire-bell in the night, has awakened and (¡lied me with terror. I considered it at once, the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. 13ut this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,... | |
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But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. 
