 | Josiah Quincy - 1858 - 452 páginas
...their full share, of the virtues that elevate and of the graces that adorn the character of civilized man. They announced themselves as reformers of the...God of nature had bestowed upon him at his birth; to disenthrall his limbs from chains, to break the fetters from his feet and the manacles from his hands,... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1858 - 472 páginas
...their full share, of the virtues that elevate and of the graces that adorn the character of civilized man. They announced themselves as reformers of the...of nature had bestowed upon him at his birth ; to disenthrall his limbs from chains, to break the fetters from his feet and the manacles from his hands,... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 1979 - 414 páginas
...1843, Adams sketched his vision of a free and upright society, declaring that the Founding Fathers had "pledged us, their children, to labor with united...the cradle to the grave, to purge the earth of all slavery."74 Slavery had influenced the second party system from its inception. The Missouri controversy... | |
 | Carole J Keller - 2006 - 321 páginas
..."They announced themselves as reformers of the institutions of civil society. They spoke of the law of nature, and in the name of nature's God; and by...earth of all slavery; to restore the race of man to full enjoyment of those rights which the God of nature had bestowed upon him at his birth; to disenthrall... | |
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... entitled them,' they tacitly contracted the engagement for themselves, and above all for their posterity, to contribute, in their corporate and national capacity, their full share, ay, and more than their full share, of the virtues that elevate and... 