The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.