 | George Bancroft - United States - 1858 - 454 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 These violent acts must be repealed ; you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, I stake my reputation... | |
 | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 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 These violent acts must be repealed ; you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, I stake my reputation... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 506 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts...retract. 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 They must be repealed.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 repeal... | |
 | Walford Davis Green - Great Britain - 1901 - 488 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships, that all...vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to 1778] The Attempt to Save the Empire. 347 retreat, I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...attempts to impose servitude on such men, to establish despotism over a mighty Continent, must be in vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately...; let us retract while we -can, not when we must." In spite of Chatham's eloquence his motion to have Gage's troops removed from Boston was heavily defeated.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 514 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts...retract. 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 They must be repealed.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 repeal... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts...despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be *Wlth an angry spirit. \P* I'm Afraid he'll take me.'* rain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately... | |
 | Charles Morris - Orators - 1902 - 714 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts...retract. 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 repeal... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 466 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all...continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal." This fine intellectual exhibition, if it belonged rather to statesmanship than to literature, should... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 434 pages
...circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all...continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal." This fine intellectual exhibition, if it belonged rather to statesmanship than to literature, should... | |
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I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can,... 
