| George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 480 pages
...affectionate attachment they would " never resign to any body of men upon earth." " We ask," they continued, " but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution of the prerogative, nor the grant of any new right. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 484 pages
...affectionate attachment they would " never resign to any body of men upon earth." " We ask," they continued, " but for peace, liberty, and safety. "We wish not a diminution of the prerogative, nor the grant of any new right. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we... | |
| Literature - 1885 - 544 pages
...inflicted on them by his ministers, and besought his interference in their behalf. " We ask," they said, '' but for peace, liberty and safety. We wish not a diminution...nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we shall always carefully... | |
| William Adee Whitehead - New Jersey - 1886 - 792 pages
...conduct will justify us at that grand tribunal, before which all mankind must submit to judgment We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a...in our favour. Your royal Authority over us and our connexion with Great Britain, we shall always carefully and zealously endeavour to support and maintain.... | |
| John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1886 - 536 pages
...conduct will justify us at that grand tribunal, before which all mankind must submit to judgment. We ask for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution...nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we shall always carefully... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1886 - 486 pages
...affectionate attachment they would " never resign to any body of men upon earth." " We ask," they continued, " but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution of the prerogative, nor the grant of any new right. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we... | |
| Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia - 1887 - 178 pages
...inflicted on them by his ministers, and besought his interference in their behalf. " We ask," they said, " but for peace, liberty and safety. We wish not a diminution...nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Youi royal authority over us and our connection with Great Britain we shall always carefully... | |
| Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 592 pages
...greatest glory and our greatest happiness." From the petition of the Congress to the King : " We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a...nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we shall always carefully... | |
| Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 582 pages
...greatest glory and our greatest happiness.'1 From the petition of the Congress to the King : "We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a...nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we shall always carefully... | |
| Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - History - 1896 - 814 pages
...to judgment. We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution of the prerogLtive, nor do we solicit the grant of any new right In our favour. Your royal authority over us and our connexion with Great-Britain, we shall always carefully and zealously endet vour to support and maintain.... | |
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