 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...  The Universalist Quarterly and General Review - Page 68edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Cuba - 1860 - 374 pages
...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 I reflect that God is just ; that his justice can not sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the... | |
 | Joshua Coffin - Enslaved persons - 1860 - 36 pages
...hospes a hospite tutus Non Hems a Famulis, fratrum quoquc gratia rara." " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever," and "that the Almighty has no attribute that can take sides with us in such a contest," viz., "an exchange... | |
 | Joshua Coffin - Enslaved persons - 1860 - 48 pages
...hospes a hospile tutus Non Herus a Famulis, fratrum auoquc gratia rara." " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forpver," and " that the Almighty has no attribute that can take sides with us in such a contest,"... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...that these libertics are the gift of God ? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that...revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it nmy become probable by supernatural interference ! The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...that these liberties are the gift of God ? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that...sleep forever; that, considering numbers, nature, aud natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - Slavery - 1862 - 252 pages
...people that their liberties are the gifts of God, that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that...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... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...that these liberties are of the gift of God? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country, when I 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,... | |
 | Missions - 1862 - 490 pages
...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... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that...revolution of the wheel of Fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The... | |
 | Fitzwilliam Sargent - Great Britain - 1863 - 140 pages
...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 I 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,... | |
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