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 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James West Davidson - 1998 - 732 páginas
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| Thomas Paine - 2000 - 388 páginas
...now. Now is the seedtime 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; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters. By referring the matter... | |
| Jane Elizabeth Dailey - 2000 - 302 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."'86... | |
| Paul Downes - 2002 - 255 páginas
...seed time of continental union, faith and honor," wrote Paine; "the least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender...tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters" (Common Sense, 82). "A new method of thinking hath arisen," Paine continues, in the wake of the Battles... | |
| Thomas Paine - 2002 - 300 páginas
...now. 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...tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters. Common Sense, 1776 Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms... | |
| Donald E. Pease, Robyn Wiegman - 2002 - 636 páginas
...revolution will inhabit the landscape of distant generations to come: "The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender...with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown letters" (8 1 ) . Enacting revolution and contracting a new national debt will transform the world.... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 páginas
...now. 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 it in full grown characters. By referring the matter... | |
| Richard D. Heffner - 2002 - 550 páginas
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| Merrill Jensen - 2003 - 576 páginas
...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...hath arisen. All plans, proposals, &c. prior to the 19th of April, ie to the commencement of hostilities, are like the almanacks of the last year; which... | |
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