 | John Leland - 1845 - 760 pages
...peculiar doctrinal views. He never engaged in controversy ; and when any of his published opinions were disputed, or commented upon, as was sometimes...them, without any intervening medium of self or party interest. He judged men by their measures, and measures by their adaptedness to secure that result... | |
 | David W. Belisle - 1859 - 450 pages
...and by a series of resolutions, declared themselves free and independent of the British Crown ; to the support of which, they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. a fatal disease was upon him. He died at Hillsborough in October, 1790, aged forty-eight years.... | |
 | George Horatio Derby - Humor - 1865 - 290 pages
...the Kins; of England no longer, and gave to the world that glorious Declaration of Independence, to the support of which they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. This was the birth-day of Freedom — the birth-day of the United States, now eighty years of... | |
 | William Alexander Graham - Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence - 1875 - 180 pages
...at a meeting in Charlotte, the committee made a Declaration of Independence of the British crown, to the support of which they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. On this subject he refers also to his work, " 1776, or the War of Independence." But it is said... | |
 | Reference - 1918 - 694 pages
...at a meeting in Charlotte, the committee made a Declaration of Independence of the British crown, to the support of which they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. On this subject he refers also to his work, "1776, or the War of Independence.'' But it is said... | |
 | Insanity (Law) - 1918 - 782 pages
...right and justice of human liberty and equality before the law for which our fathers fought and in support of which they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Toward the ideal which our fathers saw and toward which all over the world men have been struggling,... | |
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... George Guelph No. 3 was to govern them. They accordingly appointed delegates from the various Provinces or States, who, meeting together in Philadelphia on the fourth day of July 1776, decided to trouble the King of England no longer, and gave to... 