 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 876 Seiten
...subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent : doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely. For it...irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 668 Seiten
...to take a fresh start on the subject. EXERCISES I The answer is just this — it can't be done. II If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed on my shores I would never lay down my arms — never — never — never ! ( PITT ) III You cannot... | |
 | Lily Adams Beck - 1926 - 398 Seiten
...himself that he sympathized with Chatham's cry in the House of Lords: "You cannot conquer America. If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop landed in my country I would never lay down my arms• — never, never, never!" The fact that the... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - 1884 - 506 Seiten
...Lord CHATHAM said ; probably every member of the Chamber of Commerce used to speak it at school : " If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a single foreign soldier remained in my country, I never would lay down my arms." [Applause.] Now, America... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Severina Elaine Nelson - 1927 - 408 Seiten
...subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are forever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it...irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and 8 By permission of The Stratford... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 Seiten
...subjects to the shambles of a foreign country : your efforts are forever vain and impotent, doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it...irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions... | |
 | Joseph Dillaway Sawyer - 1927 - 668 Seiten
..."Three Bow-wows," as Boston insultingly characterized Generals Howe, Burgoyne and Clinton. doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely, for it...irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies." 1. Colonel Barry St. I.eger. 2. General John Burgoyne. 3. Burgoyne's encampment on the Hudson.... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - 1927 - 560 Seiten
...subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are forever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it...irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions... | |
 | 1913 - 624 Seiten
...subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are forever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it...irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions... | |
 | British Information Services - 1946 - 798 Seiten
...Parliament, Edmund Burke. I recall that the elder Pitt, one of our greatest Prime Ministers, said, in 1777, "If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in m) country I never would lay down my arms— never! never! never!" Then George Washington stands out... | |
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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. 
