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" I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there... "
Mirabeau's Letters During His Residence in England: With Anecdotes, Maxims ... - Page 215
by Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - 1832
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The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces ...

Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1821 - 312 pages
...lords, you CANNOT conquer America. What is your prefent fituation there ? We do not know the worft ; but we know, that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and fullered much. We fhall foon know, and in any event have reafon to lament, what may have happened fince....
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Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq, Volume 1

Charles Butler - Autobiography - 1822 - 706 pages
...impossibilities ; and I know that the conquest of " English America is an impossibility. You " cannot, my lords, you cannot conquer America. " What is your...campaigns we have done nothing and suffered " much. You may swell every expense, accu" mulate every assistance, and extend your traffic " to the shambles...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 21

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...impossibilities ; and I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, nay Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present...Campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense, accumulate every assistance, and extend your traffic to the shambles of...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 21

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 586 pages
...impossibilities ; and I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your...present situation there ? We do not know the worst: butwe know that in three Campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense,...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 21

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 586 pages
...but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there? Wedonotknowthewortt; but we know that in three Campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You...
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Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and ...

Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 pages
...impos" sibilities ; and I know that the conquest of English " America is an impossibility. You cannot, my lords, " you cannot conquer America. What is your...campaigns we have done nothing " and suffered much. You may swell every expense, " accumulate every assistance, and extend your traffic " to the shambles...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...conquest of English America is an impossibility. You CANNOT, my lords, you CANNOT conquer America. What i? ] ] You may swell every expence, and strain every effort, accumulate every assistance, and extend your...
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Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...

Charles Butler - Law - 1824 - 476 pages
...impossibilities \ and I know that the conquest of " English America is an impossibility. You cannot, " my lords, you cannot conquer America. What " is your present situation there ? We do not kndw " the worst ) but We know that iri three campaigns " we have done nothing and suffered much. You...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...impossibilities ; and I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, my lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your...campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much. You may swell every expense, accumulate every assistance, and extend your traffic to the shambles of...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...noble lord in this house, a long and laborious campaign, to expel five thousand Frenchmen from French America. My lords, you cannot conquer America. What...the sufferings, perhaps total loss, of the northern forcef; the best appointed army that ever took the field, commanded by sir William Howe, has retired...
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