 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 σελίδες
...months before the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress protested that it did not wish "to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between American colonies and the mother country." To see in the conflict an attempt of a colonized nation,... | |
 | Herbert Aptheker - 1960 - 308 σελίδες
...foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. . . . We mean not to dissolve that union [in the Empire] which has so long and so happily subsisted between...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure. . . . In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right . . . for the protection... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 σελίδες
...the members avowed a determination "to die free men rather than to live slaves," but also 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 separating from Great Britain, and establishing... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2001 - 392 σελίδες
...preservation of [their] liberties." At the same time, they assured their supporters in Great Britain, "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us."23 A year later, however, they must "acquiesce in the Necessity" of declaring independence. Since... | |
 | Rogan Kersh - 2001 - 388 σελίδες
...Britain's rhetorical displacement. "Our [intercolonial] union is perfect," they wrote, adding quickly: "Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...assure them that we mean not to dissolve that Union [with the King] which ... we sincerely wish to see restored." 102 This conceptual dissonance was cleared... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 σελίδες
...Congress also passed a Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms, in which it proclaimed "that we mean not to dissolve that union which has...us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." Like the other delegates, Franklin agreed for the sake of consensus to sign the Olive Branch Petition.... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - 653 σελίδες
...conciliatory gesture: "Lest this Declaration should disquiet the Minds of our Friends and Fellow- Subjects in any part of the Empire, we assure them that we...which has so long and so happily subsisted between us" (Jefferson 1950, i: 217). Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration had been softened in... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1893 - 834 σελίδες
...Bunker Hill : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of onr friends and fellow subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we...between us and which we sincerely wish to see restored. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain and establishing... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - 1996 - 372 σελίδες
...Philadelphia, setting forth the Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms." Jefferson, Papers, vol. 1, 217. which has so long and so happily subsisted between...Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate Measure."11 The passage turns on the ambiguous "yet," which unsettles the present by anticipating a... | |
 | Alden Bradford - 1825 - 384 σελίδες
...a right to receive from us. — We however, assure our fellow subjects in every part of the Empire, that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to be restored. We have not raised armies with ambitious... | |
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Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to... 
