A Voice to America; Or, the Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall: With A Review of the Causes of the Decline and Failure of the Republics of South AMichigan Publishing, 1855 - 412 páginas This book, "A Voice to America Or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall," by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, is a replication of a book originally published before 1855. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. |
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... by its Maker : that man was not made the property of man ; that human power is a trust for human benefit , and that when it is abused , resistance becomes justice and duty.?"-Sprague . * Macaulay . * Byron . THE ANCIENT REPUBLICS . 31.
... by its Maker : that man was not made the property of man ; that human power is a trust for human benefit , and that when it is abused , resistance becomes justice and duty.?"-Sprague . * Macaulay . * Byron . THE ANCIENT REPUBLICS . 31.
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... duty of a faithful subject , I might keep myself out of prison , and not to warn my prince from walking in a dangerous course . My conscience said unto me , that I could not be a faithful subject if I did more respect to avoid my own ...
... duty of a faithful subject , I might keep myself out of prison , and not to warn my prince from walking in a dangerous course . My conscience said unto me , that I could not be a faithful subject if I did more respect to avoid my own ...
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... duty . Threats and bribes were alike matailing . With fearless energy and burning eloquence , he denounced the oppressors - Dever once looked back , but with eves sternly tied on the future , rightel what was wrong . The impeachments of ...
... duty . Threats and bribes were alike matailing . With fearless energy and burning eloquence , he denounced the oppressors - Dever once looked back , but with eves sternly tied on the future , rightel what was wrong . The impeachments of ...
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... duty . Threats and bribes were alike unavailing . With fearless energy and burning eloquence , he denounced the oppressors - never once looked back , but with eyes sternly fixed on the future , righted what was wrong . The impeachments ...
... duty . Threats and bribes were alike unavailing . With fearless energy and burning eloquence , he denounced the oppressors - never once looked back , but with eyes sternly fixed on the future , righted what was wrong . The impeachments ...
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... duty of the layman . The American mind demands that the people of this country , whether native or alien , be brought to consider principalities and powers as entitled to consideration , only as they are creations of the Constitution ...
... duty of the layman . The American mind demands that the people of this country , whether native or alien , be brought to consider principalities and powers as entitled to consideration , only as they are creations of the Constitution ...
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Página 301 - ... the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página 303 - The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together ; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
Página 298 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Página 304 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Página 249 - Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 24 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Página 262 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Página 23 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Página 24 - ... before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account.
Página 303 - Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.