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. They poured out their treasures and... The Quarterly Review - Page 279edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
| United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 734 pages
...fought seven years against я declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest, in opposition to an assertion, which...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw, in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 736 pages
...and their blood like water, in a conless saeatest, in opposition to an assertion, which those cious and not so well schooled in the principles of civil...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw, in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
| Religion - 1835 - 1040 pages
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion, which...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parlia-. ment, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 764 pages
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion which those...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
| Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood, like water, in a contest, in opposition to an assertion, which...regarded as barren phraseology or mere parade of words. They saw, in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
| Books - 1842 - 650 pages
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest, in opposition to an assertion which...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion, which...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words Ou this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion, which.... .... On this question of principle, while actual Buffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1848 - 498 pages
...poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion whicb those less sagacious, and not so well schooled in...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parliament, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust... | |
| Electronic journals - 1867 - 696 pages
...it quoted differently. CAO [The passage in Daniel Webster's speech (May 7,1834) reads as follows : " On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they (the Colonies) raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation,... | |
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