 | Michael A. Morrison - 1999 - 416 pages
...was now at hand. —John Milton, Paradise Lost II We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. — Letters of Juntas, No. 20,... | |
 | Janet Ajzenstat - 2003 - 518 pages
...have no right to barter away, even if we would. We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to posterity* not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. But, if it were possible for us... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1870 - 782 pages
...constitutionally assert their rights, or make an humble slavish surrender of them at the feet of the ministry. To a generous mind there cannot be a doubt. We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity... | |
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We owe it to our ancestors, to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care : we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. 
