 | United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 1024 pages
...to be your situation.—Hurried to the very verge of both, another step would ruin you forever.—To be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard Upon...but to look up for kinder usage, without one manly effort of your own, would fix your character, and shew the world how richly you deserve those chain*... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...passage, from impending servitude to acknowledged independence. But faith has its limits as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither...the very verge of both, another step would ruin you for ever — to be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness ; but... | |
 | James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 494 pages
...passage from impending servitude to acknowledged Independence. But faith has its limits, as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither...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... | |
 | James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 502 pages
...passage from impending servitude to acknowledged Independence. But faith has its limits, as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither...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,... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1832 - 278 pages
...passage, from impending servitude to acknowledge independence.—But faith has its limits, as well as temper; and there are points beyond which neither...the very verge of both, another step would ruin you for ever. To be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness; but to... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 604 pages
...passage from impending servitude to acknowledged independence. " But faith has its limits as well as temper ; and there are points, beyond which neither...the very verge of both, another step would ruin you for ever. To be tame and unprovoked, when injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness; but... | |
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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. 
