Phrase by 'Deborah Sampson'
Warning: We collect thousands of phrases from different public resources. We are not responsible for any incorrect content or inaccurately information related to the phrases we collect on our website. Famous phrases, proverbs, short phrases, phrases from kids. Phrases about friendship, love, cinema, family, humor, motivation, mindfullness, improvement, life and much more. Our only goal is to offer you these phrases as an inspiration so that you can make unique dedications, express your thoughts and emotions or share on your social networks. Enjoy our content.
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierI Am , Will , Done , Paths
As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierBorn , I Was Born , Sun , Soon
In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierYou , Me , Thought , Step
What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierLife , Best , War , Soldier
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierMind , Nation , Ocean , Wilderness
Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierMyself , Experience , Child , Loss
I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierFreedom , Lose , Enjoy , Independence
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierYou , World , Sex , Opportunity
Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierJudge , Sweet , Crime , Punishment
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.
Author: Deborah Sampson - American SoldierLife , Greatest , Take , Virtue
Phrase of the day
www.todofrases.com
Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting. (Aaron Klein)Affiliated links: In case you want to support this project, you can do it by using these links. There will be no cost to you and they may be a little help to the creativity of this project.
