 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pages
...fell, would fall like the strong man; sh« would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down th» Constitution along with her. Is this your boasted...sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe il in the bowels of your countrymen? Will you quarxel * The immortal Grattan used to pronounce this... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...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, and pull down...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
...such a canse your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the 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
...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 524 pages
...such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down...along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheath the sword in its scabbard, but to sheath it in the bowels of your countrymen ? .... The Americans... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...case, even 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...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... | |
 | HENRY INCE - 1860 - 326 pages
...atoms,—in this cause, your success would be hazardous: America, if she fell, would fall a strong man,—she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. They have been driven to madness by injustice,—will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 560 pages
...controversy to be "a great common cause," and that " America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the 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 Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 pages
...controversy to be " a great common cause," and that " America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the 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... | |
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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. 
