Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor.

“Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor.”

Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.

Year: 1776
Context: Common Sense
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Keywords: continental union, enlarge with the tree, faith and honor, name engraved with the point of a pin, now is the seedtime, posterity read it in full grown characters, the least fracture now, the tender rind of a young oak

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