We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor... Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 47by Daniel Webster - 1835Full view - About this book
| 1826 - 438 pages
...so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed...stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present,... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 pages
...so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed...stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present,... | |
| 1826 - 426 pages
...sacrifice, come when tha lourmay. But, while I do We, let me have a country, or, at least, the lope of a country, and that a free country. ' But, whatever...assured, that this declaration will stand. It may coat treasure, and it may cost blood — • but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both.... | |
| 1827 - 564 pages
...so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed...stand. It may cost treasure. and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present,... | |
| 1827 - 540 pages
...so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed...least the hope of a country, and that a free country. will create navies. The people, the people, if we are true to them, will carry us, and will carry themselves,... | |
| 1828 - 394 pages
...so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed...stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present,... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pages
...so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour...stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour...least the hope of a country, and that a free country. their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord,—and the... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 pages
...it so. Be it so. If it be the will of heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour...hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that afree country. 10. But, what ever may be our fate, be assured, this de' claration will stand.... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour...stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compen'sate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present,... | |
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