 And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble...  Putnam's Monthly - Seite 1031857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - 1862 - 252 Seiten
...their only firm basis, — a conviction in the minds of the people that their liberties are the gifts of God, that they are not to be violated but with...God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever," &c., &c. PART II. OIJR POLITICAL APOSTASY. " Who can reflect, unmoved, upon the round Of smooth and... | |
 | 1862 - 490 Seiten
...Jefferson, though a Deist and a slave-owner, said in his ' Notes on Virginia:' — 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep for ever ; that an exchange of situations is among possible events ; that it may become probable by... | |
 | Fitzwilliam Sargent - 1863 - 140 Seiten
...minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God—that they are not to be violated but by His wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when...reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep for ever; that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune,... | |
 | James William Massie - 1864 - 134 Seiten
...that they are not left to the guidance of a blind fatality." " I tremble for my country," he said, " when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep for ever. The Almighty has no attributes that could take sides with us in such a contest as between... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - 1865 - 818 Seiten
...their only firm basis, — a conviction in the minds of tJie people that their liberties are the gifts of God, that they are not to be violated but with...God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." Prophetic words ! fully and most emphatically verified in the history of the causes which produced,... | |
 | Jacob Richards Dodge - 1865 - 284 Seiten
...we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated...when I reflect that God is just; that his justice can^ not sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 110 Seiten
...could overcome, and, after vain wrestlings, the words that broke from him, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 88 Seiten
...could overcome, and, after vain wrestlings, the words that broke from him, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 Seiten
...have removed their only firm basis, — a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? — that they are not to be...violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for iny country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that, considering... | |
 | 1868 - 186 Seiten
...have removed their only firm basis, — a conviction in the minds of the people that their liberties are the gift of God, — that they are not to be violated...his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." (Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia.)... | |
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