 | Walford Davis Green - Great Britain - 1906 - 492 pages
...will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause your success will be hazardous. America if she fall, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace...pillars of the State, and pull down the Constitution along with her. " Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 pages
...Act, which so many here will think a crying injustice, I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous....pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace — not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1910 - 778 pages
...of England." Pitt declared "the American controversy to be a great common cause and that if she fell she would embrace the pillars of the State and pull down the Constitution with her." "The natural rights of man and the immutable laws of nature are," said Lord Camden, "with that people."... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 316 pages
...time of the Revolution. All will remember the eloquent declaration of Chatham, that if America fell she " would embrace the pillars of the state and pull down the constitution along with her." And among the smaller men who expressed such opinions was Horace Walpole, who declared... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 318 pages
...time of the Revolution. All will remember the eloquent declaration of Chatham, that if America fell she " would embrace the pillars of the state and pull down the constitution along with her." And among the smaller men who expressed such opinions was Horace Walpole, who declared... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 544 pages
...ground, on the Stamp Act, . . . your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. . . . [M]y opinion ... is, that the Stamp Act be repealed absolutely, totally, and... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 512 pages
...force of this country can crush America to atoms. . . . But on this ground, on the Stamp Act, . . . your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with... | |
 | Ellen Chase - United States - 1910 - 474 pages
...he can fetch a peppercorn into the exchequer at the loss of millions to the nation? I know the valor of your troops, I know the skill of your officers,...be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man : she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution with her.... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 460 pages
...though England could crush America to atoms, her triumph would be hazardous ; for if America fell, she would fall like the strong man : she would embrace...the state, and pull down the constitution with her. The language of Pitt was perhaps extreme, but the occasion was extraordinary. And his eloquence had... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - Legislators - 1911 - 584 pages
...act, which so many here will think a crying injustice, 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 a strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the State and pull down the Constitution along with... | |
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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. 
