 And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble...  The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it - Page 180by Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | R. B. Bernstein - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 290 pages
...Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means...no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.97 And yet, in Query XIV, "Laws," he struggled to explain why Virginia could not abolish slavery... | |
 | Robert David Sack - Philosophy - 2003 - 316 pages
...I tremble for my country. When I reflect that God is just: that this justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means...interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us in such a contest."16 Concerns such as these, as well as a growing political realism... | |
 | Joanna Brooks - Literary Collections - 2003 - 272 pages
..."Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means...may become probable by supernatural interference!" 63 Alienation, dependency, deprivation, degeneracy, dissolution—these were the values assigned blackness... | |
 | David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 336 pages
...Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means...among possible events: that it may become probable through supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2003 - 376 pages
...Virginia: I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means...revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of fortune is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. . . . The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Jefferson looked to a total emancipation of the slaves and hoped it would take place "with the consent... | |
 | Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever, " adding that "the Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. " Jefferson did not act on this conviction. But he swore on God's altar what Lincoln signed in blood.... | |
 | Gary V. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 268 pages
...declared Jefferson when contemplating the possibility of a slave revolt. For like Adams, he believed "the Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest."108 In 1804, Adams was not afraid to echo these words publicly. While speaking against the... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 258 pages
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 | William Wells Brown - Fiction - 2003 - 324 pages
...Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever; that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means...attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. "What an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death... | |
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