 | 1882 - 340 páginas
...them. Speaking of the true welfare of States, George Mason, of Virginia, said : " By an inscrutable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." But in the situation with which we are familiar the startling fact is not so much the corruption as... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 466 páginas
...system, adding the solemn warning, now fearfully justifying itself in the sight of bis descendants, that "by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." The Virginian romancer pictured the far-off scenes of the conflict which he saw approaching as the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 482 páginas
...adding the solemn warning, now fearfully justifying itself in the sight of his descendants, that " by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." The Virginian romancer pictured the far-off scenes of the conflict which he saw approaching as the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 530 páginas
...judgment of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects,...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 páginas
...judgment of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects,...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
 | Sydney Howard Gay - 1884 - 368 páginas
...judgment of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." These were warnings worth heeding. But Ellsworth retorted with a sneer : " As he had never owned a... | |
 | Sydney Howard Gay - 1884 - 374 páginas
...a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By au inevitable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." These were warnings worth heeding. But Ellsworth retorted with a sneer : " As he had never owned a... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1884 - 666 páginas
...dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution." Col. George Mason lamented "that some of our Eastern brethren had, from a lust of gain, engaged in this nefarious traffic." The effect, he said, of the provision to pass commercial laws by... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 páginas
...judgment of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects,...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. I lament that some of our eastern brethren have, from a lust of gain, embarked in this nefarious traffic.... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 402 páginas
...judgment of Heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects,...Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." But these prophetic words were powerless against the combination of New England with the far south.... | |
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Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of HEAVEN on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national... 
