 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 582 pages
...necessity of taking up arms, adopted July 6, 1775, a few weeks after the battle of Bunker Hill : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mcan not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between sus, and which we... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - Electronic journals - 1896 - 830 pages
...celebrated declaration, " setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms," wherein they say: "Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...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... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - Electronic journals - 1896 - 850 pages
...declaration, " setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms," wherein they say : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...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... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1896 - 812 pages
...with one mind, resolved to die frcemen rather than live slaves. Lest this Deelaration sheuld disqniet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any...that union which has so long and so happily subsisted betwcen ns, and which we sincerely wish to sce restored. Necessity has not yet driven ns into that... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - United States - 1898 - 546 pages
...liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves." They then continue : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us to that desperate measure." — Writings of Dickinson. Dickinson was a conservative advocate of conciliation,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...of the address is often quoted by historians on account of the ominous import of one of its words. "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure." In July, 1775, Congress, by ballot, chose Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and RH Lee... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 494 pages
...of the address is often quoted by historians on account of the ominous import of one of its words. "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not ygt driven us into that desperate measure." In July, 1775, Congress, by ballot, chose Benjamin Franklin,... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - Children's books - 1900 - 330 pages
...read as follows: " We mean not to dissolve that union [1775] which has so long and so happily existed between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored....has not yet driven us into that desperate measure." the eye of every reader to a fixed point and held it there. These words were written about July 4 to... | |
 | William Livingston - 1901 - 558 pages
...by the mass of American colonists. The members of the Continental Congress had expressly declared, "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us." It has been truly said of the majority of * Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol.... | |
 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1902 - 446 pages
...The manifesto as published contained only a few words of his, but among them were the following : " We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure." Wonderfully eloquent was that little word " yet "! The threat of all that was to happen next year was... | |
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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... 
