 Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die colonists ; die slaves; die, it...  The Quarterly review - Page 171841Full view - About this book
 | John Edwin Nixon - 1885 - 256 pages
...exchanged for the banners of Freedom. EBSKINE. (35.) Sir, I know the imcertainty of human affairs; but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business....colonists, die slaves, die, it may be, ignominiously, on 5 the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...very walls will cry out in its support. 21. * Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs ; but 1 see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You...die ; die colonists ; die slaves; die, it may be, ignomiuiously" and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of heaven that my country... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Elocution - 1887 - 476 pages
...Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support. Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business....ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. But if it be the pleasure of heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the... | |
 | Lucy A. Chittenden - English language - 1884 - 204 pages
...stately hart as he paced at the head of the antlered herd. 1 PBINCIPLE XI.—Climax. Example.—We may die, die colonists, die slaves, die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Notice that the parts are arranged in order of strength, the strength increasing from the beginning... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1887 - 332 pages
...literature has swollen into a torrent, augmented into a river, expanded into a sea. 5. We may die—die colonists, die slaves, die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. EXERCISE. Rearrange the following so that each may form a climax : 1. The rain falls and deluges the... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1888 - 286 pages
...did not save him from unpopularity, from civil war, from a prison, from a bar, from a scaffold. 10. We may die, die colonists, die slaves, die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. 1 1. To weep for fear is childish ; to weep for anger is womanish ; to weep for grief is human ; to... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - United States - 1889 - 816 pages
...and the very walls will cry out in its support. " Sir, I know the uncertainty ot human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business....may die ; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ig nominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it во. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - Oratory - 1891 - 188 pages
...Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support. Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business....ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so ; be it so. But whatever may be our fate, be assured that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, it... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1892 - 1144 pages
...Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support. Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affaire, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business....ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. ïf it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and Ï, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when...die; die, colonists; die, slaves; die, it may be, ignominiouslv and on the scaffold. He it so. Be it so. ïf it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country... | |
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