| John Almon - Great Britain - 1793 - 542 pages
...confidence with a ' perfon of undoubted refpeft and authen* ticity, on that fubjeft; and heafl'ured me, * with a certainty which his judgment and ' opportunity gave him, that thefe were the , prevalent and fleady principles of Ame' rica — That you might deftroy their towns,... | |
| John Almon - 1797 - 440 pages
...friendly confidence with a perfon ol undoubted refpeft and authenti'city, on that fubjeft;; and he affured me with a certainty which his judgment and opportunity gave him, that thefe were the prevalent and fteady principles of America— That you might deflroy their towns, and... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...land ; and of the spirit which animated them, his lordship gave this animated picture : — * you may destroy their towns, and cut them off from the superfluities, perhaps the conveniences, of life ; but they are prepared to despise your power, and would not lament their loss, whilst they have — what,... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...ranks, ages, and descriptions to one common ruin. You may, no doubt, destroy their cities ; you may cut them off from the superfluities, perhaps the conveniences of life ; but, my lords, they will still despise your power, for they have yet remaining their woods and their liberty.... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 378 pages
...doctrine. ' I remember some years ago, when the repeal of the stamp act was in agitation, conversing in a friendly confidence with a person of undoubted...judgment and opportunity gave him, that these were the pre-\ valent and steady principles of America— That y_ou ) might destroy their towns, and cut them... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...of undoubted respect and authenticity on this subject; and he assnrtd me with a certainty which bis judgment and opportunity gave him, that these were...conveniences of life, but that they were prepared io despise your power, and would not lament their loss, whilst they had, WIUT, my lords'— Their woods... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...» person of undoubted respect and authenticity on this subject; and he assured me wilh a certainly which his judgment and opportunity gave him, that...and cut them off from the superfluities, perhaps the coi.veniencics of life, but that they were prepared to despise your power, and would not lament, their... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...their doctrine. I remembersomeycars ago when the repeal of the stamp act was in agitation, conversing in a friendly confidence with a person of undoubted respect and authenticity on this subject; and he assured me with a certainty which bis judgment »nd opportunity gave him, that... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...ranks, ages, and descriptions, to one common ruin. You may, no doubt, destroy their cities ; you may ps back again out ot the way of his history, purely to describe the lament my lords, they will still despise your power, for they have yet remaining their woods and their liberty.... | |
| Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1834 - 386 pages
...impotent to convince or enslave America." " You may, no doubt," said he, " destroy their cities ; you may cut them off from the superfluities, perhaps the conveniences of life; but, my lords, they will still despise your power, for they have yet remaining their woods and their liberty."... | |
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