 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 Seiten
...friends among them to annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful forces to disperse their army. / might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch .'" The greatest effort of Lord Chatham, was his speech on a motion for an address to the Throne, delivered... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 528 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 ! .... You have been three years teaching them the art of war ; they are apt scholars ; and I will venture to tell... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 Seiten
...numerous friends to annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful enemies to disperse their army : I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch!" which is described to have been one of the most emphatic and effective sentences ever pronounced by... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 Seiten
...among them, who will annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful forces who will disperse their army: I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch. 5. That America is lost to us, even the accounts published by Administration seem to admit. General... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 Seiten
...them, who will annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful forces who will disperse their army : I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch. 5. That America is lost to us, even the accounts published by Administration seem to admit. General... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 Seiten
...forces to 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 comer of Lower Saxony; but 40,000 German boors can never conquer ten times the number... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1876 - 618 Seiten
...before France and Spain became parties to the war. ' You cannot,' he exclaimed, ' conquer the Americans. I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch.' His motion was rejected by 99 votes to 28. Yet it was difficult to obtain troops. Only 3,252 men were... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 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.' Besides, he was no longer the Pitt of 1757, when it was his proud boast that he could save the empire,... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 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! . . . You have been three years teaching them the art of war ; they are apt scholars ; and I will venture to tell... | |
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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... 
