 | Samuel Osgood - American literature - 1842 - 408 pages
...than human, when at the time of our struggle, he dared to say in the British Parliament : " But were I an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my soil, I never would lay down my arms, no, never ! " This gave to Fox his matchless ardor and energy,... | |
 | Asia - 1842 - 730 pages
...colonists, to exclaim, "If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, whilst a foreign soldier remained in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never —never \" * See our !:istvo)., p. 342. MEMOIRS OF A GRIFFIN. BY CAPTAIN BELLEW. CHAPTER XXV. AND LAST. A few... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...helpless, hopeless, brokenness of heart." BYRON. "That fires not, wins not, weeps not now." IBID. " Were I an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign...never would lay down my arms, never, never, never." EARL OF CHATHAM IN DEFENCE OF AMERICA. On the Inflections of the Voice. Perhaps this may be a proper... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop remained in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never. 19. ORATORICAL ACTION.—... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Germany - 1844 - 322 pages
...subdue the revolted colonies ; an act which roused Lord Chatham to exclaim in the House of Peers, " If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...would lay down my arms, never — never — never I" We censure the policy of government, we lament the obstinacy of George III., who, exhausting the English... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. , and had mistaken you for a pretender to the crown....are as sincere iu their present professions, as if ! But, my lords, who is the man that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1844 - 142 pages
...sentences : — Woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the earth. — Comfort ye comfort ye my people. — If I were an American as I am an Englishman while...I never would lay down my arms : never never never ! — Good Hubert Hubert throw thine eye on that young boy. — Lend lend your wings: I mount I fly.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. . JUNIUS. ! But, my lords, who is the man that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...helpless, hopeless, hrokenneas of heart." BYRON. "That fires not, wins not, weeps not now." IBID. " Were I an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign...never would lay down my arms, never, never, never." EARI, OF CHATHAM IN DEFENCE OF AMERICA. On the Inflections of the Voice. Perhaps this may be a proper... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, »bile a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never — never — never. "Ina just and necessary war, to maintain the rights or honour of my country, I would «trip the shirt... | |
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If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never! 
