 | Thomas Jefferson - 1820 - 486 pages
...free people, claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their Chief Magistrate. Let those. flatter, who fear : it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...people claiming their " rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as " the gift of their chief magistrate. Let those flatter " who fear. It is not an American art. To give praise " which is not due might be well for the venal, but " would ill become those who are... | |
 | Nicholas Biddle - 1827 - 62 pages
...free people claiming their " rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as " the gift of their chief magistrate. Let those flatter " who fear, it is not an American art. To give praise " which is not due might be well from the venal, but " would ill beseem those who are... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. They know, and will, therefore, say that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people. Open your breast, Sire, to liberal and expanded thought. Let not the name of George the Third be a... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 486 pages
...free people, claimii-g their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Let those flatter who fear — it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are... | |
 | 1829 - 432 pages
...free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art. To give praise which is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...free people, claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their Chief Magistrate. Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pages
...free people, claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their Chief Magistrate. Let those flatter, who fear : it is not an American art. To give praise where h. is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pages
...free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art. To give praise which is not duo, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 pages
...whom flattery would ill beseem, when asserting the rights of human nature; and who knew, nor feared to say, that kings are the servants — not the proprietors of the people. In these sentiments, bold as they were, his political associates united with him. They resolved that... | |
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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his Majesty with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Let... 
