 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 Seiten
...friends among them to annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful forces to disperse their army : I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch ! But what would you conquer — the map of America ? I am ready to meet any general officer on the... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 572 Seiten
...disperse their army ; why — " and here he raised, and showed, the support to his gouty limbs — "I might as well talk of " driving them before me with this crutch ! "... You have ransacked every corner of Lower " Saxony ; but 40,000 German boors never can " conquer ten times the... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 Seiten
...disperse their army ; " why — " and here he raised, and showed, the support to his gouty limbs — "I might as well talk of driving them " before me with this crutch ! . . . You have ransacked *' every corner of Lower Saxony ; but 40,000 German " boors never can conquer ten times the... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 Seiten
...disperse their army ; " why — " and here he raised, and showed, the support to his gouty limbs — "I might as well talk of driving them " before me with this crutch! . . . You have ransacked " every corner of Lower Saxony ; but 40,000 German " boors never can conquer ten times the... | |
 | 1853 - 530 Seiten
...your numerous friends to annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful forces to disperse their army. I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch. What you have sent there are too many to make peace, too few to make war. If you conquer them, what... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 Seiten
...friends among them to annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful forces to disperse their army : I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch ! But what would you conquer — the map of America ? I am ready to meet any general officer on the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 Seiten
...friends among them to annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful forces to disperse their army. I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch! But. what would you conquer — > the map of America ? I am ready to meet any general officer on the... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1854 - 468 Seiten
...American question, to the bishops, the judges, and the peers : — " You talk of driving the Americans: I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch." Until he permanently and finally took up his residence in Dublin, Grattan was greatly prejudiced in... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 Seiten
...numerous friends there to annihilate the Congress ; of your powerful forces to disperse her armies ; I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch." a man which gave him his surprising ascendency over the minds of his countrymen. There was a fascination... | |
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You may ravage — you cannot conquer ; it is impossible : you cannot conquer the Americans. You talk of your numerous friends to annihilate the congress, and of your powerful forces to disperse their army : I might as well talk of driving them before... 
