| William MacDonald - 1916 - 688 páginas
...against them. — We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great-Britain, and establishing independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unpro-voked enemies, without... | |
| William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1917 - 624 páginas
...and Jefferson, and one of the greatest of the state papers of the Revolution. Still protesting that "we have not raised armies with ambitious designs...Great Britain, and establishing independent states," the declaration reviewed, vigorously but with dignity, the course of recent events, protested in the... | |
| William MacDonald - 1926 - 742 páginas
...against them. — We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of/ separating^ from Great-Britain, and establishing independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 692 páginas
...Liberties ; being with one Mind resolved to die Freemen rather than to live Slaves. from Great-Britain, and establishing Independent States. We fight not for Glory or for Conquest. We exhibit to Mankind the remarkable Spectacle of a People attacked by unprovoked Enemies, without... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1898 - 684 páginas
...Liberties ; being with one Mind resolved to die Freemen rather than to live Slaves. from Great-Britain, and establishing Independent States. We fight not for Glory or for Conquest. We exhibit to Mankind the remarkable Spectacle of a People attacked by unprovoked Enemies, without... | |
| Howard H. Peckham - 1958 - 241 páginas
...possible. Only a very few representatives spoke of independence; the idea was resisted and even despised. "We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain," stated the Congress' "Declaration of Causes of Taking Up Arms." Rhode Island soldiers were enlisted... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 páginas
...driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of...independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without... | |
| Betsy McCaughey Ross - 1980 - 388 páginas
...driven us into that desparate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of...independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest.50 Two days later, the delegates signed a petition to King George III, again the work of Congress's... | |
| Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 páginas
...us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them.—We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating...independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without... | |
| Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 páginas
...asserted, "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us. ... We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of...Great Britain, and establishing independent States." In succeeding months, Jefferson opposed schemes to seek foreign aid because they might jeopardize reconciliation... | |
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