 It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. No infamy, iniquity, or cruelty can exceed our own, if we, born and educated in a country of freedom, entitled to its blessings and knowing their value...  the monthly journal - Page 392by several hands - 1774Full view - About this book
 | William Mason Cornell - Dutch - 1876 - 598 pages
...upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children...if we, born and educated in a country of freedom, entitled to its blessings, and knowing their value, pusillaniniously deserting the post assigned us... | |
 | Joel Munsell's Sons - Schuylkill County (Pa.) - 1881 - 634 pages
...call upon us to hold and transmit to our posterity that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children,...if we, born and educated in a country of freedom,, entitled to its blessings and knowing their value, pusillanimously deserting the post assigned us by... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...us to hold and to transmit -d to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children;...them. No infamy, iniquity, or cruelty can exceed our VOL in.—12 own if we, born and educated in a country of freedom, entitled to its blessings and knowing... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. 3134 John Dickinson : Political Writings. Liberty is a slow fruit. 3135 Emerson : Miscellanies. The... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...to transmit to our posterity that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our du'.y to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. 3134 John Dickinson : Political Writings. Liberty is a slow fruit. 3135 Emerson : Miscellanies. The... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - History - 1890 - 754 pages
...upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children,...can exceed our own, if we, born and educated in a coun\ry of freedom, entitled to its blessings and knowing their value, pusillanimously deserting the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 644 pages
...upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children ; but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. — From B The Political Writings of John Dickinson* 1804, DIOGENES, LAERTIUS (Greece, Sicond Century... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 578 pages
...upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children ; but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.—From " The Political Writings of John Dichinson. n 1804. DIOGENES. LAERTIUS (Greece, Stcond... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of New York - Bibliography - 1920 - 194 pages
...upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity that liberty which we received from our ancestors." It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them, and having established the rights of the American nation among the nations of the earth, I admonish... | |
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