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The common-school system had been in operation more than a century and a quarter, and under its influence the patriotism of the Revolution was highly intelligent. The clergy generally were warm supporters of the war. Most of them were graduates of Harvard College, whose influence was always on the patriot side.
There were no tears in her eyes she was past that now but didn't she suffer? "The mother who conceals her grief While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God To know the pain that weighs upon her Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod Received on Freedom's field of honor!"
"This," he went on, "was the individual act of a brave and faithful patriot. The time has come for us, too, to remember that we are at war. I have striven for you with the weapons of diplomacy and I have failed. I ask you now to face the situation with me to make use of the only means left to us." No one hesitated. Possibly ruin stared them in the face, but not one flinched.
The more this chapter of history is examined, the more there will be found in it to justify the judgment of the venerable patriot. It is fragrant with the political aroma of the time; and the event seems worthy to stand out in the American Revolution, like the Arrest of the Five Members in the English Revolution. It is identified with a great principle.
I doubt if patriotism would have gone so far. Can you find me the patriot to-day that, deep down in his heart, likes this condition of things?" "Yes; but Uncle Daniel, these men are not rebels now. They are Democrats," said Maj. Clymer. "Yes, true; but they are no more Democrats now than they were then, and they were no less Democrats then than they are now.
"He spoke to everybody, an' then he spoke to me, as close to me as you and me; but it was him! I wanted an idea, and he gave it to me!" "Very good," I say to him; "very good. You are a patriot, that's excellent."
Honourable, courteous, kindly gentleman, highly civilized, an excellent citizen and a patriot, he was icy at an outrage to his principles, and in the dominion of Love a sultan of the bow-string and chopper period, sovereignly endowed to stretch a finger for the scimitared Mesrour to make the erring woman head and trunk with one blow: and away with those remnants! This internally he did.
Admiral Justinus of Nassau, natural son of William the Silent, was associated with Barneveld in the mission, a brave fighting man, a staunch patriot, and a sagacious counsellor; but the Advocate on this occasion, as in other vital emergencies of the commonwealth, was all in all. The instructions of the envoys were simple.
Brussels being considered insecure, the archduke Mathias and his council retired to Antwerp; but the victors did not feel their forces sufficient to justify an attack upon the capital. They, however, took Louvain, Tirlemont, and several other towns; but these conquests were of little import in comparison with the loss of Amsterdam, which declared openly and unanimously for the patriot cause.
In him England lost one of her best and greatest sons, a patriot sternly resenting all dishonor to his country, a reformer who ventured his life for the purity of the Church and the freedom of the Bible an earnest, faithful "parson of a country town," standing out conspicuously among the clergy of the time. "For Cristè's lore and his apostles twelve He taughte and first he folwede it himselve."
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