 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 309edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 736 pages
...trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty; and that was, in their eyes, enough. 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 764 pages
...trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes, enough. 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... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 1040 pages
...trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes, enough. 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...trifling ; but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes, enough. It was against the recital of an act of parliament, rather than against 22 BEAUTIES OP WEBSTER. any suffering under the enactments, that they took up arras. They went to war... | |
 | William Leggett - United States - 1840 - 324 pages
...trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes enough. 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... | |
 | William Leggett - Political science - 1840 - 324 pages
...trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes enough. 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... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 650 pages
...trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes, enough. 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...attempts to prove, that our fathers accomplished the Revolution on a strict question of principle. " 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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...attempts to prove, that our fathers accomplished the Revolution on a strict question of principle. " 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 640 pages
...trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes, enough. 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... | |
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