| Thomas Branagan - 1804 - Страниц: 290
...who cannot be supposed to be prejudiced in favour of the African race : — " I tremble," says he, " I tremble for my country, when I remember that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep for ever ; and that an exchange of circumstances is among probable... | |
| Thomas Branagan - 1815 - Страниц: 376
...times. The first, speakS83 ing of the oppression of the African race in the United States, says, " I tremble for my country, when I remember that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: and that a change of circumstances is among probable events.... | |
| 1833 - Страниц: 204
...often brings to mind the expressions of that illustrious statesman, Thomas Jefferson, when he says, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever."* May not the slave system be compared to a machine of... | |
| United States. Congress - 1830 - Страниц: 326
...quoted upon this floor, (Mr. Jefferson,) and in reference to a subject not dissimilar to the present, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever." And although the particular mode of retribution which... | |
| William Thomas - 1835 - Страниц: 196
...actuated the immortal Jefferson himself, when he exclaimed, in reference to the evil of slavery — " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep for ever." Previous to the call of this Convention, assemblages of the... | |
| 1836 - Страниц: 538
...awfully ominous in the connexion in which it was uttered, does equal honor to his head and his heart, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just." In that sentence are involved the principles of that higher statesmanship before which the expedients... | |
| Edward Beecher - 1838 - Страниц: 176
...world: and it erposes the whole nation to the wrath of God. Even Jefferson, who was no fanatic, said: "I tremble for my country, when I remember that God is just." But it is said, you will produce excitement: what then ? Did not Christ produce excitement ? Did he... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1839 - Страниц: 1324
...awfully ominous in the connexion in which it was uttered, does equal honor to his head and his heart, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just." In that sentence are involved the principles of that higher statesmanship before which the expedients... | |
| Mark Hopkins - 1839 - Страниц: 48
...awfully ominous in the connexion in which it was uttered, does equal honor to his head and his heart, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just." In that sentence are involved the principles of that higher statesmanship before which the expedients... | |
| 1855 - Страниц: 664
...doubt. It is no wonder that a great statesman who had always been conversant with Shivery should say, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just." But what are the abuses of which our author complains, the grievous laws and customs which are so offensive... | |
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