 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
 | William Russell - 1849 - 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...come when that hour may. But while I do live, let mo have a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country. But whatever may be... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1850 - 216 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,!... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 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...country. But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assurer/, that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...— 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...country. But, whatever may be our fate, be assured that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 634 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,... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 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...country. But whatever may be our fate, be assured that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand,... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...Assertion, affirmation, declaration: "We must fight, — I repeat it, sir, — we must fight." Assurance: "But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured that this Declaration will stand." Threatening: " Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further." Warning : " Lochiel, Lochiel, beware... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 720 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,... | |
 | 1850 - 216 pages
...— be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country should require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour...this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...! 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...country. But, whatever may be our fate, be assured that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand,... | |
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