 | John Marshall - Generals - 1805 - 666 pages
...servitude to acknowledged independence. But faith has its limits, as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched, without sinking...cowardice, or plunging into credulity — This my friends I conceive to be your situation... Hurried to the very verge of both, another step would ruin you forever...... | |
 | Samuel Blodget - Business & Economics - 1806 - 258 pages
...servitude to acknowledged independence. But faith has its limits as well us temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched, without sinking...cowardice, or plunging into credulity. This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation. Hurried to the very verge of both, another step would ruin you forever.... | |
 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...rectitude of his heart ; for as men see through differen1*«ptics, and are induced by the reflecting plunging into credulity. This, my friends, 1 conceive...the very verge of both, another step would ruin you for ever ! To be tome and unprovoked, when injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness; but... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...servitude, to acknowledged independence. But faith has its limits as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched, without sinking...cowardice, or plunging into credulity... .This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation.. ..Hurried to the very verge of both, another step would ruin you... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...servitude, to acknowledged independence. But faith has its limits as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched, without sinking...cowardice, or plunging into credulity. This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation. Hurried to the very verge of both, another step would ruin you forever.... | |
 | James Thacher - United States - 1823 - 686 pages
...into credulity. — This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation, — hurried to the very edge of both, another step would ruin you forever. — To be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard on you, is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage, without one manly effort of your own,... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 1022 pages
...acknowledged independence. But faith has its limits as well as temper, and there are points b<- . yond which, neither can be stretched, without sinking into cowardice or plunging into creoulity — This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation. — Hurried to the verv verge of birth,... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1824 - 524 pages
...plunging into credulity. This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation, — hurried to the very edge of both, another step would ruin you forever. To be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard on you, is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage, without one manly effort of your own,... | |
 | James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 494 pages
...servitude to acknowledged Independence. But faith has its limits, as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched, without sinking...or plunging into credulity. — This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation, — hurried to the very edge of both, another step would ruin you... | |
 | James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 502 pages
...servitude to acknowledged Independence. But faith has its limits, as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched, without sinking into cowardice, or plunging into credulity.—This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation,—hurried to the very edge of both,... | |
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But faith has its limits, as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched without sinking into cowardice, or plunging into credulity. 
