| 1776 - 612 pages
...; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thoafand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an anfwer, which when obtained requires five or fix more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked... | |
| SEVERAL HANDS - 1776 - 612 pages
...us; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thoufand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an anfwer, which when obtained requires five or fix more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked... | |
| 1776 - 746 pages
...lor if they cannot conquer us, they cannot goverfi lis. TO be always running three or four thoufand miles with a tale, or a petition; waiting four or five months for an anfwer; which, when obtained, requires fire or fix more to explain it in ; will, in a few years, be... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1776 - 608 pages
...ifor if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thoufand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an anfwer, which when obtained requires five or fix more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1824 - 444 pages
...distant from us, and so very ignorant of us ; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles...in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness—there was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease. Small... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1824 - 524 pages
...so very ignorant of us ; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always runnmg three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition,...in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness—there was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease. Small... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 pages
...distant from us, and so very ignorant of us ; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles...looked upon as folly and childishness — There was a tini-e when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease. Small Islands not capable of... | |
| 1850 - 424 pages
...distant from us, and so very ignorant of us ; for if they can not conquer us, they can not govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles...as folly and childishness. There was a time when it waa proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease." The third chapter of the work closes with... | |
| 1859 - 802 pages
...weighty and too intricate to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience by a power so distant. To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or fioe months for an answer, which, when obtained, requires five or six more to explain it in, will in... | |
| James Parton - 1864 - 728 pages
...the people even of Pennsylvania were of English lineage; the mother-country of America was EUROPE ! " To be always running three or four thousand miles...or six more to explain it in, will in a few years he looked upon as folly and childishness — there was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper... | |
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