Their tyrants then doubled their chains upon the unhappy captives, and led them away without resistance to the cells of Ignorance, or the mansions of Misery.
At the time of the beginning of their resistance to the oppressive acts of their mother country, they were, in their governments, entirely separate from and independent of each other.
According to this view, the Union began with the first acts of resistance taken in common by the colonies, and is thus, in a sense, older than the state governments, which were not formed until after the Declaration of Independence.
What were the grounds upon which the colonists justified their resistanceto the acts of English government?
During the absence of this ambassador, resistance would be quietly organized, and they would be ready to act when the signal for revolt was given by the chiefs.
Was not the long struggle you have sustained up to this day sufficient to prove to you the inutility of a mad resistance against a power too strongly established for your obstinate efforts to succeed even in shaking it?
Without replying, the sachem looked at the Spaniards who surrounded him; perceiving that any resistance would be useless, he let his knife drop at his feet, folded his arms on his chest, and waited.
Let us make haste though, for, if I am not mistaken, we shall find the resistance which is not offered us here at the village.
At first she was obstinate, but Priscilla whispered that she wished to see her husband alone, and the doctor took upon him to warn Mrs. Broad that resistance on her part might be dangerous.
As the power of internal resistance diminishes, the circumstance of the external world presses on us like the air upon an exhausted glass ball, and finally crushes us.
They found no resistance until the foremost were well within the Fish Gate, when the Master of Ruthven, with his company, stoutly rencountered them, and so rudely repulsed them that such as were behind gave back.
The watch was negligently kept, and succour was slow, and long in coming; the French, before any resistance was made, approached almost to the great ordnance.
Upon the point of day, they approached to the enemies' ground; and passed the water without any great resistance made unto them.
But here, in this shameful discomfiture of Scotland, very few more than three hundred men, without knowledge of any back or battle to follow, did put to flight ten thousand men without resistance made.
He made some resistance at the first, by reason of his promise:[73] but an effeminate man cannot long withstand the assaults of a gracious Queen.
The models are able to make an evaluation of the resistance of each branch, but the model will have enough simulations in which the branch will break.
The basic information is related to the lack of precise information about the resistance of the branches.
And could the few hundred citizens of the place, most of them without firearms, be expected to make a resistance against such a force, and with six cannon planted on the hills overlooking the town?
It is therefore only possible, scarcely probable, that, even if Averill's force of less than two thousand five hundred men had been here, a successful resistance could have been made under these circumstances.
His enterprise, thus far, had gone forward so smoothly, that he was no better prepared than his lieutenant to meet with resistance from the natives.
The bold and independent islanders opposed a stubborn resistance to the arms of the Incas; and, though they had finally yielded, they had been ever since at feud, and often in deadly hostility, with their neighbours of Tumbez.
The chief rejected it at once, as no less impolitic than inhuman, and dismissed the Indians to their several homes, with the assurance that none should be harmed who did not offer resistance to the white men.
The Spaniards rarely experienced on their march either resistance or annoyance from the inhabitants, who, instructed by the example of Coaque, fled with their effects into the woods and neighbouring mountains.
They were not prepared for this spirit of resistance in an enemy hitherto so tame.
It is said he had meditated resisting them by arms, and had encouraged the assaults made on them on their march; but, finding resistance ineffectual, he had taken this politic course, greatly to the displeasure of his more resolute nobles.
Resistance becomes a crime to be washed out only in the blood of the victim.
This was evident from the ease with which a few Spaniards had overrun this great continent, subduing one nation after another, that had offered resistance to their arms.
The position had lost its charm in the eyes of the Spaniards, who had met here with the first resistance they had yet experienced on their expedition.
The executioner, attended by a priest, stealthily entered his prison; and the unhappy man, after confessing and receiving the sacrament, submitted without resistanceto the garrote.
All manner of means were devised by these kidnappers to catch the negroes when and where they could make the least resistance and the least noise.
This attitude weakened her resistancethough she strove against it.
He pried open the jaws with but littleresistance and let the tongue slip back before he poured in a measure of Scotch and water between the canine and incisor teeth.
Resistance of the Pasha to my Voyage, and overcome by the Consul.
Any resistance to this zeal for The Prophet, would be putting your head into the fire.
There we must bow the head, forresistance would be dangerous.
Be ye fearful in the fight, let resistancebe laid low (?
Its perpetuity is linked closely with the resistance of all efforts at reform.
The ancient faiths of Greece and Rome, which Christianity overcame, were infantile and imbecile as compared with the subtle wisdom and the mighty resistance of Brahmanism.
The prescriptive right, which is founded in long-established custom and usage, rather than in positive enactment, was the ground of resistance to the encroachments of the Provincial Executive.
Against these proceedings resistance was bold and general, suspected householders answering the demand of the customs-officers by closing the doors in their faces.
In the early days of our liaison he saw only the commonplace side of me, and I think that the certainty of meeting with no resistance had much to do with his determination.
The feeling of resistance vanishes, when there is no longer a Will to be resisted; the harass and vexation appear unwholesome phantoms.
There is also a resistance which thwarts our desires, endeavours, and determinations.
There is resistance to a muscular sense, somewhat akin to touch, but specialized to feel the kind of impact given by things impenetrable.
Had it been otherwise he could not have calculated on finding the necessary strength, elasticity, resistance to rust, and other properties on which Paley dwells so distinctly.
At the entrance of the little hut itself appeared the beldam whom we have seen acting as cook in the forest, and who on that occasion, had shown some inclination towards a resistance of Pharold's authority.
I do not know how far my powers of resistance might go," answered Marian de Vaux, "but I should very much like to hear the rest of the story.
Ere he could rise, two more were added to the assailants; and finding resistance vain, Pharold instantly abandoned the attempt, suffered his arms to be pinioned with a burning heart, and followed whither they led him.
A valiant resistance was with Alexander always a sufficient motive for the most sanguinary reprisals.
How easy to represent that a defenceless merchant vessel had offered resistance to search, and that therefore by the law of nations she and her cargo were lawful prize!
There were no knights in the town accustomed to war and capable of organising a defence; and it was only people of the poorer sort who offered a brave but futile resistance to the army.
The same tactics are pursued in nearly every instance--a policy of sullen non-resistance on the part of the I.
After the "blood-stained anarchists" arrived on the scene, a policy of non-resistance to the aggressions of the police and the militia prevailed.
In the rear, the quarter Des Epinettes still held out for a time; at last all resistance ceased, and about nine o'clock the entire Batignolles belonged to the army.
From the end of November, these boisterous and contradictory orders, these accumulations of impracticable decrees, these powers given and taken back, clearly proved that only a sham resistance was meant.
At nine o'clock the resistance was reduced to the small square formed by the Rues du Faubourg du Temple, Des Trois Bornes, Des Trois Couronnes, and the Boulevard de Belleville.
The weakness of the new Delegate encouraged the resistance of all malcontents.
The losses of the army in June, 1848, and the resistance of the insurgents had been relatively more serious.
The municipal councillors, weak men, some of them, almost to reaction, had lowered the red flag under the pretext that "the proud flag of resistance a outrance should not survive the humiliation of France.
It is objected that the Assembly promises us at some indefinite period the election of the municipal council and that of our chiefs, and that consequently our resistanceought not to be prolonged.
Since daybreak barricades of the strategic route, the gates of Montreuil and Bagnolet, were occupied by the troops, who without resistance invaded Charonne.
He persisted in holding out, and had shifted the centre of his resistance a little further to the rear, to the Place Jeanne d'Arc.
Faneau understood that it would be in vain to attempt to justify himself; also, he offered no resistance to the firing-party.
The disorder of the War Office rendered all resistance chimerical.
A slung sheep offers but slightresistance to a blow," he said.
The girl's shy blue eyes and laughing lips formed a combination difficult to resist, if resistance were thought of.
The clearest recognition of His requirements may coexist with resistance to them, and needs the impulse of loving contemplation of God's unnumbered wonders to vivify it into glad service.
That trust must be maintained by resolute resistanceto temptations to its opposite.
And Fuentes, seeing that further resistance could only lead to the annihilation of his little band, felt that no more could be done.
The resistance was feeble, for the height above the winding steps was but six feet, and insufficient for the use of either axes or longer weapons.
It had been kept in a good state of repair by the intendant, and could offer a stoutresistance to anything short of an army provided with a powerful battering train.
Four times was the manoeuvre repeated, the resistance growing fainter each time, as the peasants found themselves unable to withstand the charge of the disciplined troops.
The Spaniards, however, made no effort to relieve the town, which capitulated after a resistance of only two or three days.
I surrender," he cried in German, seeing that resistance was impossible.
Appalled by this sudden attack, which was wholly unexpected, the resistance was but slight.
The town itself was walled, and extended to the foot of the citadel, and was capable of offering a sturdy resistance even after the citadel had fallen, just as the citadel could protect itself after the capture of the town by an enemy.
When Tecumseh afterwards attempted to form his confederacy, he met with a firm and steady resistance from Black Hoof, and his influence was such that no considerable body of the Shawnees ever joined the Prophet's camp.
But at the first attempts of the government surveyors to enter the Ohio country, they met with a most determined resistance from the savages.
Numbers of their leading chieftains, including Tarhe, of the Wyandots, and Little Turtle of the Miamis, thought all further resistance useless.
At Monmouth he turned the fortunes of the day by his stubborn and successful resistance to the repeated bayonet charges of the Guards and Grenadiers.
Stevenson, of Kentucky: Declare resistance to fugitive-slave law, or rescue of slaves from custody of officers, felony.
Held together as a compact party by their peaceful resistance to the bogus laws, emigration from the North had so strengthened their numbers that they clearly formed a majority of the people of the Territory.
He denounces all who question the correctness of that decision, as offering violent resistanceto it.
By the official declarations of the President of the United States, the Government had tied its own hands--had resolved and proclaimed the duty and policy of non-resistance to organized rebellion.
It is in a diligent organization of her true men for prompt resistance to the next aggression.
We did this under the single impulse ofresistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
In other words, I think the President, whoever he may be, should treat all attempts Douglas, to break up the Union by resistance to the laws, as Old Hickory treated the nullifiers in 1832.
The laws must be administered, and the constituted authorities upheld, and all unlawful resistance to these things must be put down with firmness, impartiality, and fidelity.
A special Federal police to execute United States laws, and suppress unlawful resistance thereof.
