 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...that have been preserved of him : " America, if she falla, will fall like the strong man ; she will embrace the pillars of the State, and pull down the constitution along with her." The very next sentence contains a commonplace and even coarse metaphor : " Is thU your boasted peace... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...your success would be deplorable, and victory hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state,...along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen ? Will you quarrel... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the...along with her. Is this your boasted peace — not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen ? Will you quarrel... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the...along with her. Is this your boasted peace — not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen ? Will you quarrel... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1845 - 536 pages
...officers ; but in such a cause your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution with her. The Americans have been wronged ; they have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - Germans - 1845 - 686 pages
...country ; but in such a cause your success would be hazardous. America if she fell, would fall like the strong man : she would embrace the pillars of the State and pull down the Constitution with her. Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard, but to sheathe it... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 pages
...against it) in such a cause your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.' The orator then, deprecating too much severity in judging the conduct of the Americans, said; ' I acknowlege... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1847 - 470 pages
...atoms. But on this ground your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the...state, and pull down the constitution along with her-" The ministers, after a good deal of consideration, determined to bring in a bill for the repeal of... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...atoms. But on this ground your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the...state, and pull down the constitution along with her." These debates resulted in the passage of a "declaratory act," on the 24th of February, 1766, which... | |
 | Robert Reid Howison - Virginia - 1848 - 542 pages
...know the valour of your troops, — the force of this country ,— but in such a case success would be hazardous; America, if she fell, would fall like a...pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution with her.'" Slowly and reluctantly the enemies of freedom yielded to the storm. Doctor Franklin was... | |
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I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. 
