 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1776 - 308 páginas
...ftrength to do it with cffeft ? We are now in fuch a fituation, that we Hiuft either fight or be purfued. What a Swedifh General faid to his men, in the .reign...they will kill you. " If we do not, my lords, get ths better of America, America will get the better of us. We do not fear, at prefent, that they will... | |
 | 1776 - 746 páginas
...engaged in a war, which we muft purfue, or run away from it. We cannot do the latter: for if we do not get the better of America, America will get the better of us. They are not carrying on a war merely dcfenfive. They have invaded Canada, perhaps (God forbid) conquered... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 496 páginas
...kill you." The same sentiment his lordship affirmed to be applicable to the present case. If we do not get the better of America, America will get the better of us. — Are we to stand idle because we are told this is an unjust war, and wait till they have brought... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1810 - 484 páginas
...kill them, they will kill you.' The fame fentiment is applicable to the prefent cafe. If we do not get the better of America, America will get the better of us. They have begun to raife a navy ; trade will beget opulence, and they will be enabled to hire {hips... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 páginas
...hardships, with patience and resignation !" Essay on the Canon and Feudal Law, by John Adams, Eiq. 1765. "If we do not, my lords, get the better of America,...America will get the better of us. We do not fear, at present, that they will attack us at home ; but consider, on the other hand, what will be the fate... | |
 | Johann Friedrich C. Kortüm - 1829 - 626 páginas
...1776 abgefd>(o(Ten. Parliam. reg. III. 286. sqq. , »o bie Utfunbcn юегае!фпе1 ft'nb. 150) „If we do not, my lords, get the better of America , America will get the better of us." фег ©tof »ОП ättanoftelb im JDbet&OUfe. Pari. reg. V. 166. 151) London Chron. März 5. —... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 554 páginas
...present. Pointing to the enemy, who were marching down to engage them, said he, ' My lads, you see those men yonder: if you do not kill them, they will kill...better of America, America will get the better of us."J In the following year Lord Mansfield opposed the Duke of Grafton's proposition for conciliation... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 páginas
...Adolphus, who had pointed to the enemy, and exclaimed to his own soldiers : " My lads, you see " those men yonder ; if you do not kill them, " they will kill you ! " * By this Bill moreover, in its last and, in design at least, its more conciliatory clause, the... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 688 páginas
...kill them, they will kill you.' The same sentiment " is applicable to the present case. If we do not get " the better of America, America will get the better of " us. They have begun to raise a navy ; trade will " beget opulence, and they will be enabled to hire ships... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 páginas
...exclaimed, " We are now in such a situation that we roust either fight or be pursued. If we do not get the better of America, America will get the better of us! They have begun to raise a navy; trade, if left free to them, will beget opulence, and enable them... | |
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If you do not kill them, they will kill you;' if we do not, my lords, get the better of America, America will get the better of us. Are we to stand idle, because we are told this is an unjust war? 
