Chivalrous Letter to the Countess of Selkirk . On a Patient killed by a Cancer Quack Russia and the Russians a Hundred Years Ago The Traveller's Tribute to Woman . From “ The Political Green-House" On the Expediency of Adopting the Federal Constitution View of the Powers proposed to be vested in the Union Whether the State Governments are in Danger from the Federal Power Concerning African Colonization Lord Dunmore's Petition to the Legislature of Virginia INDEPENDENCE. THY Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye ; Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. TOBIAS GEORGE SUOLLETT. ON THE WAR WITH AMERICA. The people whom they affect to call contemptible rebels, but whose growing power has . at last obtained the name of enemies, are abetted against you, supplied with every military store, their interests consulted, and their embassadors entertained, by your inveterate enemy; and our ministers dare not interpose with dignity or effect. ... I love and honor the English troops : I know their virtues and their valor: I know they can achieve anything except impossibilities ; and I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. My lords, you cannot conquer America ! .. You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince : your efforts are for ever vain and impotent–doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely. ... If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms-never-never-never ! WILLIAM Pitt, EARL OF CHATHAM. A.D. 1777. |
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