 ... why is not the latter commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my Lords, any state is better...  1774-1780.- - Page 230by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...the resources of this kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights. But, my lords, any state is better than despair. Let us...and, if we must fall, let us fall like men.' When his lordship sat down, Lord Temple said to him, e You have forgot to mention what we have been CHAP.... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. — But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us...and if we must fall, let us fall like men !' When his Lordship sat down, Lord Temple said to him, " You have forgot to mention what we have been talking... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 378 pages
...; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. — But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us...and if we must fall, let us fall like men !' When his Lordship sat down, Lord Temple said to him, " You have forgot to mention what we have been talking... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1811 - 536 pages
...though I know them not ; and any ^ state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least 17/-8 " make one effort ; and, if we must fall, let us fall like "men." THE duke of Richmond declared his grief and horror at the dismemberment of the empire to be as great... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 766 pages
...has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not ; and any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort; and, if we must fall, let us fall like men." " The Duke of Richmond declared his grief and horror at the dismemberment of the empire to be as great... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 736 pages
...kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my lords, any state is better than despair. Let us...effort ; and if we must fall, let us fall like men !* * The following Report of the Earl of Chatham's Speech upon this occasion, is taken from the Londoo... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1820 - 502 pages
...still sufficient to maintain its just rights, " though I know them not; and any state, my lords, " is better than despair. Let us at least make one "...effort ; and, if we must fall, let us fall like " men." THE duke of Richmond declared his grief and horror at the dismemberment of the empire to be as great... | |
 | Edward Holt - Great Britain - 1820 - 520 pages
...trust, it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my Lords, is better than despair. Let us, at least, make one...effort, and, if we must fall, let us fall like men." The Duke of Richmond, in reply, confessed himself totally ignorant of the means by which we were to... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 pages
...trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us, at least, make one...effort, and, if we must fall, let us fall like men." The duke of Richmond requested his lordship to point out the mode of making the Americans renounce... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my lords, any state is better than despair. Let us,...effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men." — Here . he was obliged to pause and rest: he had still .a plan to propose for the recovery of America,... | |
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