 Theirs was a necessity, real or fancied, but a consistent system ; we pretend no necessity ; we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the causes of danger. The time to have paused was before we heaved from...  The Metropolitan Magazine - Σελίδα 2841841Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1867 - 636 σελίδες
...a necessity, real or fancied, but a consistent system ; we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the...The time to have paused was before we heaved from these sons of earth the mountains which the wisdom or the terrors of our ancestors had heaped upon... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 680 σελίδες
...we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the cause* of danger. The time to have paused was before we .heaved, from those sons o£ earth, the mountains, which the wisdom or the terrors of our ancestors had heaped upon them ; but... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 696 σελίδες
...bave voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the cause» of danger. The time to have paused was before we heaved,...sons of earth, the mountains, which the wisdom or the terrors of our ancestors had heaped upon them ; but we have raised them up and placed them erect... | |
 | 1815 - 772 σελίδες
...fancied, but a consistent system ; we pretend no necessity ; we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the...sons of earth, the mountains, which the wisdom or the terrors of our ancestors had heaped upon them ; but G t consciences and the public safety, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 770 σελίδες
...fancied, but a consistent system ; we pretend no necessity ; we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the...sons of earth, the mountains, which the wisdom or the terrors of our ancestor« had heaped upon them ; but Q t we have raised them up and placed them... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 σελίδες
...fancied, but a consistent system ; \\ e pretend no necessity ; we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the...sons of earth, the mountains, which the wisdom or the terrors of our ancestors had heaped upon them ; but we have raised them up and placed them erect... | |
 | 1831 - 446 σελίδες
...had heaved from those sons of earth the mountains which the wisdom and terrors of our ancestors have heaped upon them : but we have raised them up and placed them erect — are we prepared to burl them down, and bury them again ? " It is admitted that in the debate on this question, he excelled... | |
 | 1841 - 608 σελίδες
...necessity, but a consistent system ; we pretend no necessity, we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the...raised them up, and placed them erect ; are we prepared to hurl them down and bury them again ?" The instances in the British senate are very rare where eloquence... | |
 | Daniel Owen Madden - 1844 - 358 σελίδες
...necessity, but a consistent system ; we pretend no necessity, we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the...before we heaved from those sons of earth the mountains icthich the wisdom, or terror of our ancestors had heaped upon them, but we have raised them up, and... | |
 | William Conyngham Plunket Baron Plunket - 1862 - 492 σελίδες
...fancied, but a consistent system ; we pretend no necessity ; we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the...those sons of earth, the mountains which the wisdom or the teiTors of our ancestors had heaped upon them ; but we have raised them up and placed them erect... | |
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