 | John Burk - Slavery - 1805 - 490 pages
...valour of your troops — 1 know the skill of your officers — I know the force of this country ; but in such a cause your success would be hazardous. America,...embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the contitution with her. Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard, but to... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 516 pages
...instruments to make " slaves of the rest. If America was to fall," continued he, "she " would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars " of the state, and pull down the constitution with her. She has " been wronged ; she has been driven to madness by injustice : " Will you punish... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...be hazardous. America, if she fell, , ^'' would fall like the strong man ; she would cm- 1766. brace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution...peace ? Not to sheath the sword in its scabbard, but in the bowels of your countrymen. The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper.... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 546 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 tie constitution with her. Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard, but... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 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... | |
 | Thomas Northmore - English poetry - 1809 - 268 pages
...Sampson—" In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would tall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. " Lord Chatham, Debrett, iv. 297. . 208. a modesty — " The gentleman must not wonder he was not contradicted,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 612 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,...constitution 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strongman; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull...constitution 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?... | |
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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. 
