 | 2002 - 366 דפים
...humanity, can restrain your hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause, we must then tell you that we will never submit to be hewers of wood or...of water for any ministry or nation in the world." — from Congress's petition to the king, accompanying the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, October... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 2008 - 361 דפים
...humanity can restrain your hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause, we must tell you, that we will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world."3' The old family, social, and professional ties of New York could not hold the Moot together... | |
 | Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 דפים
...to 'permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall ever esteem a union with you', but threatens that 'we will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water'. Its course of action is embodied in a Continental Association that will boycott British goods and close... | |
 | Walter Stahr - 2005 - 520 דפים
...can restrain your hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause," then Britons should know that "we will never submit to be hewers of wood or...of water for any ministry or nation in the world." The Americans prayed that Britain would elect a Parliament of "wisdom, independence and public spirit,"... | |
 | Casey White - 2006 - 130 דפים
...restrain your hands from shedding blood in such an impious cause," he wrote, Britain should beware, for "we will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers...of water for any ministry or nation in the world." Like his countrymen, Jay was moving steadily but implacably toward independence. CHAPTER 3 THE DIPLOMAT... | |
 | J. Michael Waller - 2007 - 524 דפים
...humanity can restrain your hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause, we must then tell you that we will never submit to be hewers of wood or...of water for any ministry or nation in the world. Place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the last war, and our former harmony will... | |
 | J. David Hoeveler - 2007 - 404 דפים
...of their own legislatures. He proclaimed that Americans had been loyal beyond reason, but he warned that "we will never submit to be hewers of wood or...drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world."9* When the news of Lexington and Concord in 1775 reached New York City it ignited another round... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1826 - 430 דפים
...your hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause, we must then tell you, that we shall never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any minister or nation in the world. ' Place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the... | |
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... if neither the voice of justice, the dictates of the law, the principles of the constitution, or the suggestions of humanity, can restrain your hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause, we must then tell you, that we will never submit... 
