 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1841 - 622 pages
...There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat... | |
 | 1822 - 734 pages
...the strong ¡ilone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. VOL. V. But we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too...contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery—our chains are forged—their clanking may be heard upon the plains of Boston. The war is... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we luve no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it ¡a now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged: their clanking may be heard on the plains of Huston! The war is eneritubie;... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is n,ow too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat,... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...Then• is ajust God who presides over the destinies of nations: and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat,... | |
 | Statesmen - 1824 - 518 pages
...There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations : and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it. it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat,... | |
 | Statesmen - 1824 - 514 pages
...There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations : and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat,... | |
 | Statesmen - 1824 - 516 pages
...There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations : and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the...alone : it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides^sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire... | |
 | John Frost - American literature - 1826 - 326 pages
...backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot ? The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigitent, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. Sir, we are not weak, if we make... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat,... | |
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our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election.' 1 If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat,... 
