Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the hands of a French minister. Blush! blush! ye guilty records ! blush and perish ! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous, I say, for so they will be to all posterity. How can such a... France in the American Revolution - Página 458por James Breck Perkins - 1911 - 544 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Adams - 1851 - 596 páginas
...mine. But the sacrifice of me was not so servile and intolerable as putting us all under guardianship. Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the...blush! ye guilty records ! blush and perish ! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous, I say, for so they will be to all posterity. How... | |
| Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 páginas
...Congress was highly distasteful to Mr. Jay. It was equally so to Mr. Adams. ' Congress,' he says, ' surrendered their own sovereignty into the hands of...blush, ye guilty records ! blush and perish ! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous, I say, for so they will be to all posterity. How... | |
| John Torrey Morse - 1884 - 358 páginas
...mine. But the sacrifice of me was not so servile and intolerable as putting us ail under guardianship. Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the...blush ! ye guilty records ! blush and perish ! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous, I say, for so they will be to all posterity. How... | |
| John Fiske - 1888 - 410 páginas
...rebuke from Congress, conveyed in a letter from Robert Livingston. As Adams said, in his vehement way, " Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the...blush ! ye guilty records ! blush and perish ! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders." True enough ; the commissioners knew that in diplomacy,... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1899 - 830 páginas
...of Congress which virtually transferred the negotiation from its own ministers to a foreign court. " Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the...perish ! It is a glory to have broken such infamous orders."1 i Works, III. 333. » U'orks, VIII. 144. * Works, III. 365. « Works, III. 359. It fairly... | |
| John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1896 - 360 páginas
...intolerable as putting us all under guardianship. Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the bauds of a French minister. Blush ! blush ! ye guilty records ! blush and perish ! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous, I say, for so they will be to all posterity. How... | |
| John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1898 - 398 páginas
...sovereignty into the hands of a French minister. Blush ! blush ! ye guilty .records ! blush and perish! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous,...they will be to all posterity. How can such a stain he washed out? Can we cast a veil over it and forget it ? " Severe words these, painful and humiliating... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1898 - 440 páginas
...as well as his, he breaks forth on the subject of the instruction to take the advice of France : " Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the...blush ! ye guilty records ! blush and perish ! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous, I say, for so they will be to all posterity. How... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1899 - 842 páginas
...of Congress which virtually transferred the negotiation from its own ministers to a foreign court. " Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the...perish ! It is a glory to have broken such infamous orders."4 1 Works, III. 333. 3 Works, VIII. 144. 2 Works, III. 365. « Works, III. 359. It fairly summarizes... | |
| John Watson Foster - 1900 - 548 páginas
...mine. But the sacrifice of me was not so servile and intolerable as putting us all under guardianship. Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the...blush! ye guilty records ! blush and perish! It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous, I say, for so they will be to all posterity. How... | |
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