 Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for...  Abraham Lincoln, the Lawyer-statesman - Page 185by John Thomas Richards - 1916 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1873 - 526 pages
...some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never ! All the nations of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the...on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years,' etc., etc., etc. 'Many great and good men,' he continues, 'sufficiently qualified for any task they... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 pages
...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,...on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years ! " At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected ? I answer, if it ever reach us,... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - American essays - 1881 - 356 pages
...free from spread-eagleism. Scattered through these pages we find such gems as the following : — " All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,...track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years !"..." Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...we expect some transatlantic military giant to step across the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined,...on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected ? I answer, if it ever reaches us, it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never ! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,...on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected ? I answer, If it ever reach us it must... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...we expect some transatlantic military giant to step across the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,...on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected ? I answer, if it ever reaches us, 1t.must... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...we expect some transatlantic military giant to step across the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,...force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track upon the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.1 At what point then is the approach of danger... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never ! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasures of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander,... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 pages
...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never ! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasures of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...that FRANKLIN. some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasures of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander,... | |
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