 I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy! Pressed down as I am by the hand of infirmity, I am little able to assist my country in this...  The New-York Review - Page 3631840Full view - About this book
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...He then proceeded in the following terms :] My Lords, I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive, to lift up my voice against...dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy ! am bv the hand of inlirmitv Pressed down as I I am little able to assist mv countrv in this most... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...He then proceeded in the following terms :] My Lords, I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive, to lift up my voice against...conjuncture ; but, my Lords, while I have sense and memory, I will never consent to deprive the offspring of the royal house of Brunswick, the heirs of the Princess... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 516 pages
...has gone forth of yielding up America. My lords, — I rejoice that the grave has not yet closed upon me, — that I am still alive to lift up my voice...the hand of infirmity, I am little able to assist шу country in this most perilous conjuncture ; but, my lords, while I have sense and memory, I will... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 518 pages
...has gone forth of yielding up America. My lords, — I rejoice that the grave has not yet closed upon me, — that I am still alive to lift up my voice...monarchy. Pressed down as I am by the hand of infirmity, 1 am little able to assist my country in this most perilous conjuncture ; but, my lords, while I have... | |
 | Martin Russell Thayer - Germantown, Battle of, Philadelphia, Pa., 1777 - 1878 - 34 pages
...to-day to stand up in the cause of my country. My Lords, I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me, that I am still alive to lift up my voice against...dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy." A few moments afterwards he fell backwards in the agonies of death, and was borne by his friends from... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1878 - 394 pages
...aecompanied me to maturer years." 4. Lord Chatham remarked : "I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me: that I am still alive to lift up my voice against a great wrong." METHOD VII.— By transposition, ie, by varying the order of the component parts of... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Statesmen - 1879 - 354 pages
...addressed himself to the present. " My lords," he exclaimed, " I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against...conjuncture ; but, my lords, while I have sense and memory, I will never consent to deprive the royal offspring of the House of Brunswick, the heirs of the Princess... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1879 - 760 pages
...denounce both its spirit and its object. " I rejoice," said he, " that the grave has not closed upon me, that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and noble monarchy. Pressed down as I am by a load of infirmity, I am little able to assist my country... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1879 - 394 pages
...accompanied me to maturer years." 4. Lord Chatham remarked: "I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me: that I am still alive to lift up my voice against a great wrong." METHOD VII.—By transposition, ie, by varying the order of the component parts of... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - American Confederate voluntary exiles - 1880 - 556 pages
...colonies from England, and his last words were : " My lords, I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against...dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy." (Bancroft, Vol. IX., p. 495.) that the Congress, so warmly eulogized in the British Parliament for... | |
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