Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical SocietyThe Society, 1903 |
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الصفحة 113 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
الصفحة 134 - To me remains nor place nor time ; My country is in every clime ; I can be calm and free from care On any shore, since God is there.
الصفحة 114 - But the indissoluble link of union between the people of the several States of this confederated nation is, after all, not in the right, but in the heart. If the day should ever come (may Heaven avert it...
الصفحة 111 - ... whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may and of right ought to reform the old or establish a new Government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
الصفحة 271 - A Letter to a Friend, giving a Concise, but Just representation of the Hardships and Sufferings the Town of Boston is exposed to, and must undergo, in consequence of the late Act of the...
الصفحة 40 - Cases of Conscience Concerning evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are accused with that Crime. All Considered according to the Scriptures, History, Experience, and the Judgment of many Learned men.
الصفحة 101 - For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God will bring them about ? Our planet is one, the suns are many, the world is wide. Shall I weep if a Poland fall ? shall I shriek if a Hungary fail ? Or an infant civilization be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide.
الصفحة 507 - WILLIAM PACA'S PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.* That it be declared that all Persons entrusted with the Legislative or Executive Powers of Government are the Trustees and Servants of the Public and as such accountable for their Conduct. Wherefore, whenever the Ends of Government are perverted and public Liberty manifestly endangered...
الصفحة 109 - It seemed now to be pretty well understood, that the real difference of interests lay, not between the large and small, but between the Northern and Southern, States. The institution of slavery, and its consequences, formed the line of discrimination.
الصفحة 112 - State towards the General Government to fly to open resistance upon every infraction of the Constitution. The mode and the energy of the opposition should always conform to the nature of the violation, the intention of its authors, the extent of the injury inflicted, the determination manifested to persist in it, and the danger of delay.