| Carlo Botta - United States - 1852 - 974 pages
...lift my hands and voice against it. ' In such a cause, your success would be deplorable, and victory hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the...pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? — not to sheath the sword in its scabbard, but to sheath... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1852 - 484 pages
...who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause your success would be hazardous. America, IP she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would...pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. " Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheath the CHAI-. sword in its scabbard, but... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...Act, which so many here will think a crying injustice, I am one who will lift up my hands against it. lay no more taxes on them an admission that taxes would touch and grieve them ? Is not tb« strong man ; she would embrace the pillars ol the state, and pull down the Constitution along... | |
| John Frost - United States - 1853 - 786 pages
...execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " I know the valour of your troops and the skill of your officers ; but in such a cause your success would be hazardous....would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down tbi constitution with her. The Americans have been wronged ; they have been driven to madness by injustice.'... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...sound " bottom the force of this country can. crush America to " atoms. But in such a cause as this your success would " be hazardous. America, if she...pillars of the State, " and pull down the Constitution along with her! Is " this your boasted peace ? Not to sheath the sword in " its scabbard, but to sheath... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 414 pages
...sound " bottom the force of this country can crush America to " atoms. But in such a cause as this your success would " be hazardous. America, if she...pillars of the State, " and pull down the Constitution along with her ! ls " this your boasted peace ? Not to sheath the sword in " its scabbard, but to sheath... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...think it a crying injustice, I am one who will lift up my hands against it. " In such a cause even your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell,...pillars of the State, and pull down the constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? To sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 416 pages
...bottom the force of this country can crush "America to atoms. But in such a cause as this yoursuc" cess would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall...pillars of the " State , and pull down the Constitution along with her ! Is "this your boasted peace? Not to sheath the sword in its " scabbard , but to sheath... | |
| John Frost - United States - 1854 - 775 pages
...execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " I know the valour of your troops and the skill of your officers ; but in such a cause your success would be hazardous....the state, and pull down the constitution with her. The Americans have been wronged ; they have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them... | |
| Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, even your suocess would be haiairdous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man....pillars of the State, and pull down the Constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? To sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the... | |
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