 It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 269geredigeerd door - 1914Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 734 pagina’s
...fought seven years against я declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest, in opposition to an assertion, which...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw, in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 736 pagina’s
...and their blood like water, in a conless saeatest, in opposition to an assertion, which those cious and not so well schooled in the principles of civil...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw, in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1835 - 764 pagina’s
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion which those...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
 | 1835 - 1040 pagina’s
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion, which...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parlia-. ment, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pagina’s
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood, like water, in a contest, in opposition to an assertion, which...regarded as barren phraseology or mere parade of words. They saw, in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
 | 1842 - 650 pagina’s
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest, in opposition to an assertion which...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pagina’s
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion, which...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words Ou this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pagina’s
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion, which.... .... On this question of principle, while actual Buffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 498 pagina’s
...poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion whicb those less sagacious, and not so well schooled in...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
 | 1867 - 696 pagina’s
...it quoted differently. CAO [The passage in Daniel Webster's speech (May 7,1834) reads as follows : " On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they (the Colonies) raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation,... | |
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