 We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal...  1774-1780.- - Page 22by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858Full view - About this book
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 644 pages
...say we must necessarily uudo these violently oppressive acts ; they must be repealed. You will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it that you will, in the...not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating, this diegraceful necessity." He declared that the cause of America and England was one ; that it was... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 650 pages
...say we must necessarily undo these violently oppressive acts ; they must be repealed. You will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it that you will, in the end, repsal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Essays - 1862 - 512 pages
...say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed ; you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the...taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed .'" Yet he would not consent to compromise the Imperial authority, nor agree to Franklin's proposal,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 712 pages
...we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts : they must be repealed — y ou will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the...taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. sionnée, dans l'éclat sombre et violent de ce style surchargé et trop fort. C'est de cette pourpre... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 698 pages
...we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts : they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the...them; I stake my reputation on it: — I will consent lo be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. sionnée, dans l'éclat sombre et violent... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts : théy must be repealed — y ou will repeal thém ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal tbem; I stake my reputation on it: — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if théy are not finally... | |
 | James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...say we must necessarily, undo these violent oppressive acts. They must be repealed. You will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will, in the...taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed." Besides this prophecy, so soon fulfilled, he foretold the alliance between France and America — France... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Statesmen - 1876 - 394 pages
...must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts. You will repeal them. I pledge myself for it. I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be...taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed." Franklin writes, " All availed no more than the whistling of the wind. The motion was rejected. Sixteen... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 pages
...Chatham's speeches may remember his addiction to such emphasis of assertion as " I pledge myself for it," " I stake my reputation on it," " I will consent to be taken for an idiot if" it be not so, etc. But Pitt was no Polonius, at any period of his career (nisi prius, p. 320). Scott's... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...say we must necessarily undo these violent, oppressive Acts. They must be repealed. You will repeal them. I pledge myself for it that you will in the...not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating, degrading necessity.' Two of his best speeches were fortunately reported by Hugh Boyd, and one of these... | |
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