 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...of incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three .millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy...wonder, then, at the long and deep silence which is said^to have followed upon their organization; at the anxiety with which the members looked around... | |
 | United States - 1824 - 518 pages
...of incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy...around upon each other; and the reluctance which every indi\ idual felt to open a business so fearfully momentous. In the midst of this deep and death-like... | |
 | William Wirt - Statesmen - 1834 - 482 pages
...of incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy...organization ; at the anxiety with which the members looked aroiwid upon each other; and the reluctance which every individual felt to open a business so fearfully... | |
 | Aesthetics - 1834 - 428 pages
...people, wit! that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energies of their councils. Ni> wonder, then, at the long and deep silence which is...followed upon their organization ; at the anxiety at which the members looked around upon each other, and the reluctance which every individual felt... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...of incalculable magnitude. The liberties t>f no less than three millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy...organization ; at the anxiety with which the members looked round upon each other, and the reluctance which every individual felt to open a business so fearfully... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - United States - 1843 - 866 pages
...incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three millions of people, with that of all theit posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy of...organization ; at the anxiety with which the members looked round upon each other, and the reluctance which every individual felt to open a business so fearfully... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 370 pages
...of incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy...long and deep silence which is said to have followed immediately upon their organization ; caused by the anxiety with which the members looked round upon... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...of incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy of their councils.* "It is such an assembly," writes John Adams, who was present, " as never before came together on a... | |
 | Henry Walter DePuy - Vermont - 1854 - 448 pages
...of incalculable magnitude The liberties of no less than three millions of peoj .e, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy of their councils. No wonder, tl-wi, at the long and deep silence which is said to have followed upon their organization ; at the... | |
 | Henry Walter De Puy - Explorers - 1855 - 450 pages
...of all their posterity, were staked on the svisdom and energy of their councils. No wonder, tl•jn, at the long and deep silence which is said to have followed upon their organization ; at the anxiety v th which the members looked rouYid upon each other; and the reluctance which every individual felt... | |
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The meeting was awfully solemn. The object which had called them together was of incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy of their councils. 
