| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...fears and resentments; — then they may trust you ; then you may hope for their love and gratitude. All attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to...retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. Avoid the humiliating, the disgraceful, necessity. Make the first advances towards peace. There is... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia. 8. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all...nation, must be vain; must be fatal. We shall be forced 1 ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 226 pages
...and simplicity of language,— for everything respectable and honorable,— they stand unrivalled. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts...mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. 6. This wise people speak out. They do not hold the language of slaves. They tell you what they mean.... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 226 pages
...and simplicity of language, — for everything respectable and honorable, — they stand unrivalled. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism45 over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. 6. This wise people... | |
| American Orators - 1857 - 610 pages
...evident that you cannot force them to your unworthy terms of submission. It is impossible. We ourselves we may take »nch an attitude as will canee the neutrality we may at any time resolve I repeat it. my lords, we shall one day be forced to undo these violent, oppressive acts. They must... | |
| American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...evident that you cannot force them to your unworthy terms of submission. It is impossible. We ourselves shall be forced ultimately to retract. Let us retract while we can ; not when we must. I repeat it, my lords, we shall one day be forced to undo these violent, oppressive acts. They must... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...and simplicity of language, — for everything respectable and honorable, — they stand unrivalled. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships that all attempts...mighty Continental Nation, must be vain, must be fatal. This wise People speak out. They do not hold the language of slaves. They tell you what they mean.... | |
| Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...can stand in preference to4 the delegates of America assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts...a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be futile. Can such a national principled union 5 be resisted by the tricks of office or ministerial manoauvres?... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
...All attempts to impose servitude on such men, to esta" blish despotism over such a mighty Continent, must be " vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced...; let us retract while we can, not when we " must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent. " oppressive Acts ; they must be repealed ; you will... | |
| GEORGE BANOROIT - 1858 - 450 pages
...equal to it, and all attempts to impose servitude upon such a mighty continental nation, must be vain. We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. These violent acts must be repealed; you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, I stake my reputation... | |
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