 | Adelaide Louise Rouse - 1904 - 514 pagina’s
...against them. — We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great-Britain, and establishing independent states. We fight not...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offence. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
 | Adelaide Louise Rouse - 1904 - 508 pagina’s
...wish to see restored. — Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. —...raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great-Britain, and establishing independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit... | |
 | Howard H. Peckham - 1958 - 241 pagina’s
...possible. Only a very few representatives spoke of independence; the idea was resisted and even despised. "We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain," stated the Congress' "Declaration of Causes of Taking Up Arms." Rhode Island soldiers were enlisted... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
 | Betsy McCaughey Ross - 1980 - 388 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desparate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest.50 Two days later, the delegates signed a petition to King George III, again the work of Congress's... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 pagina’s
...us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them.—We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offence. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
 | Gary B. Nash - 1990 - 240 pagina’s
...preservation of our liberties, being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than live slaves." "WE exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of...by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation, or even suspicion, of offence.— They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 pagina’s
...asserted, "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us. ... We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of...Great Britain, and establishing independent States." In succeeding months, Jefferson opposed schemes to seek foreign aid because they might jeopardize reconciliation... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate Measure, or induced us to excite any other Nation to War against them. We...raised Armies with ambitious Designs of separating from Great-Britain, and establishing Independent States. We fight not for Glory or for Conquest. We exhibit... | |
 | Derek H. Davis - 2000 - 328 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
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... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against... 
