 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 páginas
...has still ^ufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and, if we must fall, let us fall like men 1" When Lord Chatham had taken his seat Lord Temple said to him, " You have forgotten to mention what... | |
 | Elizabeth Penrose - 1869 - 528 páginas
...every person present was riveted to his words, all the circumstances of the war, and ended by saying, " Let us at least make one effort, and, if we must fall, let us fall like men." The duke of Richmond, spoke in answer, and Lord Chatham rose again with a countenance animated with disdain, and eager to... | |
 | Thomas Simpson Birkby - 1870 - 242 páginas
...every person present was riveted to his words, all the circumstances of the war, and ended by saying, " Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men." The duke of Richmond spoke in answer, and Lord Chatham rose again with a countenance animated with disdain, and eager to... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1873 - 204 páginas
...its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my Lords, is better than despair. Let us at last make one effort ; and, if we must fall, let us fall like men.' The Duke of Richmond then appealed to the venerable nobleman to point out how the Americans were to be persuaded to renounce... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 páginas
...of the House of Brunswick of their fairest inheritance." — " My Lords," he concluded, " any state is better than despair. Let us, at least, make one...effort, and, if we must fall, let us fall like men. My Lords, ill as I am, yet as long as I can crawl down to this House, and have strength to raise myself... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 páginas
...trust it has still sufficient, though I know them not, to maintain its just rights. My Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men. — Lord Stanhope. ClCERO, PMlipp. iii. § 34, sqq. iv. § 11, sqq. vi. 16, sqq. vii. § 7-9. xiii.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 páginas
...has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my Lords, any state opposed ? What, my Lords ? A few regiments in America, and seventeen or eighteen thousand men at ho ! When Lord Chatham had taken his seat, Lord Temple remarked to him, "You have forgotten to mention... | |
 | Thomas Frost - 1876 - 404 páginas
...or war, and if peace cannot be preserved with honour, why is not war commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources...if we must fall, let us fall like men." The Duke of EichmoHd, in reply, declared himself to be totally ignorant of the means by which Great Britain was... | |
 | 1876 - 638 páginas
...still sufficient to maintain its just rights. But, my lords, any state is better than despair. Let ns at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men." Tho classic scene that followed when Chatham, rising to reply to the Duke of Richmond, fell back fainting... | |
 | Edith Thompson - 1878 - 488 páginas
...tell its ancient inveterate enemy : ' Take all we have ; only give us peace ' ? My Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men ! " On again rising to address the Peers, he sank down in a fit; and, after lingering a few weeks,... | |
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... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least... 
