 | William Belsham - 1795 - 496 pages
...can stand in preference to the delegates of America assembled in general congress at Philadelphia. 1 trust it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts...continental nation, must be vain, must be futile. Can such a national principled union be resisted Hi BOOK by the tricks of office or ministerial manoeuvres?... | |
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 468 pages
...circumstances, can stand in preference to the delegates of America, assembled in general congress at Philadelphia. I trust, it is obvious to your lordships,...over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain/' i • e • LORD Chatham was ably supported by his friend, the excellent lord Camden, who among other... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1807 - 556 pages
...complication of difficult circumstances, exhibits no nation a body of men superior to the general congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships,...a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retract. Let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say... | |
 | 1808 - 546 pages
...circumstances, can stand in preference to the Delegates of America, assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships...continental nation, must be vain, must be futile. Can such a national principled union be resisted by the tricks of office or ministerial manoeuvres... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships,...a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the genera] Congress at Philadelphia. I 'trust it is obvious to your Lordships,...a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shall deforced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 378 pages
...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your Lordships,...a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not > when we must.... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1811 - 316 pages
...difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships,...a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced, ultimately, to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pages
...latino or body of men, can stand in preference 1o tlu, general Congress at Philadelphia. I tru« il is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to...such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty commenta nation, must be vain, must be fatal. Vie shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us reirac... | |
 | 1814 - 260 pages
...my Lords, I must declare and avow th 9t in the master states of the world I know not the people nor the Senate who in such a complication of difficult...continental nation, must be vain ; must be futile." Amid the triumph which I felt in this noble eulogy from one of Nature's greatest of noblemen, I could... | |
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Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference... 
