Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed-time of continental union, faith and honor. The political works of Thomas Paine - Página 143por Thomas Paine - 1826 - 425 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| David Saville Muzzey - 1915 - 634 páginas
...now. Now is the seed-time of Continental union, faith and honour. The least fracture now would be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak ; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full-grown characters. By referring the matter... | |
| Herbert Eugene Bolton, Thomas Maitland Marshall - 1920 - 764 páginas
...necessary. "The period of debate is closed. Arms, as the last resort, must decide the contest. . . . By referring the matter from argument to arms, a new...method of thinking hath arisen. All plans, proposals, and so forth, prior to the nineteenth of April . . . are like the almanacs of last year." The pamphlet... | |
| John Henry MacCracken - 1920 - 454 páginas
...they should enjoy. The period of debate is closed. Arms in the last recourse must decide the contest. A new era for politics is struck. A new method of thinking has arisen. All plans and proposals prior to that nineteenth of April, when the embattled farmers stood... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...now. Now is the seed-time of Continental union, faith, and honor. The least fracture now will be like animals for his neighbors; as if nothing but a mouse could have filled this crevice would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters. By referring the matter... | |
| William Cecil Pendleton - 1927 - 640 páginas
...of a vigorous writer, 'Now is the seed time of faith and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young beech, the wound will enlarge with the tree, and posterity will read it in full grown characters.'... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 páginas
...The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound will enlarge with the tree, and From COMMON SENSE posterity read it in full grown characters. THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF By referring... | |
| 1927 - 286 páginas
...continental union, faith, and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the weak point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak;...will enlarge with the tree and posterity read it in full-grown characters. By referring the matter from argument to arms, a new era for politics is struck,... | |
| Wayne Franklin - 1989 - 328 páginas
...flaw in their behavior would expand enormously in future times: "The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the word would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters" (19). Though it was... | |
| William Lee Miller - 1993 - 316 páginas
...situation: "Now is the seed-time of Continental union, faith and honour. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters." So it was now, more precisely... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 páginas
...point. "Now is the seed-time of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak," writes Paine. "It might be difficult, if not impossible," he adds, "to form the Continent into one... | |
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