 | John Greville Agard Pocock - 1985 - 336 pages
...at their head for a ministry . . ." 18 See Jefferson's drafts for the Declaration of Independence: "Not only soldiers of our common blood. but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us . . ." Carl Becker, The Declaration of necessarily popular in the sense that it was outside the intimate... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1993 - 296 pages
...their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power, at this very time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only souldiers of our common blood, but Scotch & foreign mercenaries to invade & destroy us. these facts... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, re-established them in power. At this very time too, they are permitting...agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren. We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 pages
...their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them im his father was well, but very melancholy: he told...as much grieved for his father as for himself; I & foreign mercenaries to invade & destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection,... | |
 | Ian Charles Cargill Graham - 2009 - 223 pages
...Independence, he complained that the "British" (by which term he could only have meant the English) were permitting their chief magistrate "to send over not...and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us." To Jefferson, the English were his "unfeeling brethren." But the Scots were to be classed with the... | |
 | Marilyn C. Baseler - 1998 - 380 pages
...harmony, they have, by their free election, re-established them in power. At this very time they too are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch & foreign mercenaries to invade & destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...disturbers of our harmonv, thev have, bv their free election, reestablished them in power. At this verv time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not onlv soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch & foreign mercenaries to invade & destrov us. These facts... | |
 | Carol Gould, Pasquale Paquino - 2001 - 178 pages
...death, desolation and tyranny already begun," Jefferson continues his lament to "our British brethren": "[At this very time too, they are permitting their...agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren. ... We might have been a free and a great people together]" (emphases... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 pages
...child against parent. As Jefferson's original words in the Declaration of Independence proclaimed: "These facts have given the last stab to agonizing...spirit bids us to renounce for ever these unfeeling brethren."4 The metaphor of parricide was used after the destruction of King George Ill's statue in... | |
 | David McCullough - 2001 - 883 pages
...people, "our British brethren," as a further oppressor, for allowing their Parliament and their King "to send over not only soldiers of our common blood,...and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us." And therein, Jefferson charged, was the heart of the tragedy, the feeling of betrayal, the "common... | |
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At this very time, too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly... 
