 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother land, hut that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.5 It was that which gave promise that, in due time, the weight would be lifted from the shoulders... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1875 - 574 pages
...long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother land ; but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...liberty, not alone to the people of this country, Twt I hope to the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise, that, in due time, the... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...revolution. <; It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...country, but I hope to the world for all future time. . . . If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say that I would... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...revolution. '•'• It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...country, but I hope to the world for all future time. . . . If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say that I would... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. This is a sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Now, ray friends, can this country... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 pages
...long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence,...weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Now, my friends, can this country... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Now, my friends, can this country... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Campaign literature, 1880 - 1880 - 518 pages
...he made the declaration which seemed to presage his assassination: " This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty,...country, but I hope to the world for all future time, and if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle — I was about to say — I would... | |
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I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which... 
