 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1856 - 528 pages
...— 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...constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace — to sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the bowels of your countrymen ?" — It was in... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 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,...her. " Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheath the CHAP. sword in its scabbard, but to sheath it in the bowels ^^ of your brothers, the Americans? Will... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 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,...Constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace? To sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the bowels of your countrymen ? The Americans have... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 pages
...that have been preserved of him : ' 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.' The very next sentence contains a commonplace and even coarse metaphor : ' Is this your boasted peace... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...injustice, I am one who will lift up my hands against it ; — in such a canse your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a...state, and pull down the constitution along with her." Pitt, then deprecating the conduct of those who jndged the Americans with an eye of severity, said... | |
 | 1859 - 370 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 the constitution with her. Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard, but to sheathe it... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 pages
...1766, Mr. Pitt himself declared the American controversy to be " a great common cause," and that " America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man....state, and pull down the constitution along with her." Hear Lord Camden, also : " I will say, not only as a statesman, politician, and philosopher, but as... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 560 pages
...January, 1766, Mr. Pitt himself declared the American controversy to be "a great common cause," and that " America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man....state, and pull down the constitution along with her." Hear Lord Camden, also: "I will say, not only as a statesman, politician, and philosopher, bat as a... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...— in such a case, even your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man : she would embrace the pillars of the...constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace — to sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the bowels of your countrymen ?" His character... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 pages
...against it. In such a cause your success would be hazardous. America, if »he fall, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the...State, and pull down the Constitution along with her."' Pitt concluded his speech with a proposition for an absolute and immediate repeal of the Stamp Act,... | |
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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. 
