 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
 | James William Massie - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 134 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 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...revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The... | |
 | Jacob Richards Dodge - West Virginia - 1865 - 282 pages
...people 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...revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events — that it may become probable by supernatural interference. The... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - United States - 1865 - 818 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." Prophetic words ! fully and most emphatically verified in the history of the causes which produced,... | |
 | Jacob Richards Dodge - West Virginia - 1865 - 284 pages
...people 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 God is just; that his justice can^ not sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 88 pages
...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 - 110 pages
...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 - 508 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...revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...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...considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revo lution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, ia among possible events ; that it may... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - Readers - 1868 - 510 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...revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The... | |
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