 | Ellen Chase - 1910 - 474 pages
...skill of your officers, I know the force of this country; but in such a cause your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a...pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution with her. Is this your boasted peace? not to sheath the sword in the scabbard, but to sheath it in... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1911 - 594 pages
...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...State and pull down the Constitution along with her." (Speech on the Right to Tax America, Jan. 16, 1776.) That passage shows the aptitude of language he... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1911 - 460 pages
...crush America to atoms, her triumph would be hazardous ; for if America fell, she would fall like the strong man : she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution with her. The language of Pitt was perhaps extreme, but the occasion was extraordinary. And his eloquence... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - 1912 - 428 pages
...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, would fall like a...constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? — to sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the bowels of your countrymen ? Will you quarrel... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - 1912 - 44 pages
...it. ' In such a cause even 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. X ' Is this your boasted peace ? To sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the bowels of your... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1912 - 500 pages
...crush America to atoms, her triumph would be hazardous ; for if America fell, she would fall like the strong man : she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution with her. The language of Pitt was perhaps extreme, but the occasion was extraordinary. And his eloquence... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 610 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... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1913 - 450 pages
...the skill of your officers. . . . But on this ground, on the Stamp Act, . . _-your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would, fall like...pillars of the State and pull down the constitution with her. Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard but to sheathe it in... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - 668 pages
...would be synonymous with our ruin. " America, if she falls, will fall like the strong man, she will embrace the pillars of the State, and pull down the Constitution along with her." Chatham was right, and profoundly right, in his perception that a British Empire must be founded on... | |
 | John McFarland Kennedy - 1914 - 430 pages
...the force of this country can crush America to atoms. In such a cause as this your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a...state and pull down the constitution along with her. ... I will take leave to tell the House what is really my opinion. It is that the Stamp Act be repealed,... | |
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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. 
