 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 498 σελίδες
...the sooner be brought to pass, viz., the entire separation and independence of the Colonies. * * * It requires but a small portion of the gift of discernment...Providence will erect a mighty empire in America. * * * And that we shall be respected in England exactly in proportion to the firmness and strength of our opposition."... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 512 σελίδες
...the sooner be brought to pass, viz., the entire separation and independence of the Colonies. ° ° ° It requires but a small portion of the gift of discernment...Providence will erect a mighty empire in America. ° ft ° And that we shall be respected in England exactly in proportion to the firmness and strength... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1865 - 594 σελίδες
...people are in council; their opposition grows into a system; they are united; they are resolute; and it requires but a small portion of the gift of discernment...Providence will erect a mighty empire in America." 4 There is no report of the speeches that were made at this conference. The Boston delegates reminded... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1865 - 602 σελίδες
...people are in council; their opposition grows into a system; they are united; they are resolute; and it requires but a small portion of -the gift of discernment...foresee that Providence will erect a mighty empire in America."4 There is no report of the speeches that were made at this conference. The Boston delegates... | |
 | William Vincent Wells - 1865 - 534 σελίδες
...nation, I mean the being of its importance, however strange it may now appear to some, will depend on the union with America. It requires but a small portion of the gift of discernment for any to foresee that Providence will erect a 1 Justice to the Colonies is here made the alternative. Yet... | |
 | John Hampden Hazelton - 1906 - 676 σελίδες
...the sooner be brought to pass, viz. — the entire separation and independence of the Colonies ... It requires but a small portion of the gift of discernment for anyone to foresee that Providence will erect a mighty empire in America . . ." Of the opinions of John... | |
 | Justin Harvey Smith - 1907 - 680 σελίδες
...as Elisha opened the eyes of his servant. ' It requires but a small portion of the gift of prophecy for any one to foresee that Providence will erect...in America; and our posterity will have it recorded '§ The language of Warren : Frothingham, Warren, pp. 33, 177, 381, 392, 393, 396, 414. ' Froth ingham,... | |
 | 1908 - 436 σελίδες
...the thirteen colonies. Using the words of Samuel Adams written April 4, 1776, we are informed that, "It requires but a small portion of the gift of discernment for anyone to foresee that Providence will erect a mighty empire in America." The author naturally has... | |
 | Ralph Volney Harlow - 1923 - 386 σελίδες
...independence of the colonies." The time might come, he continued, when the importance of Great Britain "will depend on her union with America. It requires...providence will erect a mighty empire in America." * It might have been the part of abstract wisdom for Lord North and his colleagues to permit Adams... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 σελίδες
...foresaw...." The following year Sam Adams also predicted that American growth made independence inevitable: "It requires but a small portion of the gift of discernment for anyone to foresee, that providence will erect a mighty empire in America," Adams wrote, "and our posterity... | |
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It requires but a small portion of the gift of discernment for any one to foresee that Providence will erect a mighty empire in America. 