 The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed,...  The Life of John Marshall - Page 8by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1916Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...blind to a certain degree. A few of their cordial friends met at their hands the fate of enemies. * * * My own affections have been deeply wounded by some...it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and* an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 612 pages
...liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would... | |
 | American essays - 1873 - 794 pages
...Jefferson, on the contrary, wrote thus to his old friend Short, just before the execution of the king : " My own affections have been deeply wounded by some...it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated ! Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 732 pages
...liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 728 pages
...liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was...have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to CHAP. III.] POLITICAL TONE OF THE PERIOD. 109 • this cause, but rather than it should h&ve failed... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 794 pages
...liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was...blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by son* of the martyrs to CHAP. III.] POLITICAL TONE OF THE PEEIOD. 100 this cause, but rather than it... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1859 - 524 pages
...liberty for which they would nevei have hesitated to oifer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was...it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was...it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 620 pages
...liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 pages
...as he should have done " had they fallen in battle." " The liberty of the whole earth," he said, " was depending on the issue of the contest ; and was...deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause," he continued; "but rather than that it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated.... | |
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