 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall...and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature hath placed in our power. 11. Three millions of people,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...ADVOCATED. Extract from the same Speech. effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall...and foot ? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed... | |
 | William Wirt - Orators - 1832 - 490 pages
...whom he addressed himself, and the auditory, of which I was one." pinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall...and foot ? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...inaction ? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope until our enemies shall have bound us, hand and foot? Sir, we aie not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power.... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...inaction ? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope until our enemies shall have bound us. hand and foot ? Sir. we aie not weak, if we make a proper use of those means wh'di the God of nature has placed in our power.... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us 90 hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature... | |
 | United States - 1834 - 426 pages
...inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall...and foot ? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people armed... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...inaction ? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall...and foot ? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people armed... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...inaction ? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall...and foot ? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...action ? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall...and foot ? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed... | |
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Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging... 
