 To be governed at all, they must be governed with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would long since have been lost to Great Britain if civil skill and military prowess had not united their efforts to support an authority which Heaven never gave,...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 4001846Full view - About this book
 | Sherwin Cody - Orators - 1904 - 566 pages
...governed with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would long since have been lost to Great Britain if civil skill and military prowess had not united...authority which Heaven never gave, by means which it never can sanction. Gentlemen, I think I can observe that you are touched with this way of considering the... | |
 | United States - 1905 - 798 pages
...governed with a rod of iron; and our empire in the East would long since have been lost to Great Britain if civil skill and military prowess had not united...which Heaven never gave — by means which it never can sanction ! " Think of it, the fountains of justice corrupted, every arm of the government palsied... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache - Authors, English - 1908 - 382 pages
...DEFENCE OF STOCKDALE. ' Our Empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united...authority, which Heaven never gave, by means which it never can sanction. I know what reluctant nations submitting to our authority feel, and how such feelings... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 pages
...with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united...which Heaven never gave — by means which it never can sanction. Gentlemen, I have not been considering this subject through the cold medium of books,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united...which Heaven never gave — by means which it never can sanction. Gentlemen, I think I can observe that you are touched with tbis way of considering the... | |
 | Carroll Lewis Maxcy - Briefs - 1916 - 348 pages
...with a rod of iron; and our empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united...which Heaven never gave — by means which it never can sanction. l Gentlemen, I think I can observe that you are touched with this way of considering... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - Great Britain - 1918 - 628 pages
...with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united...authority which Heaven never gave, by means which it never can sanction. Gentlemen, I think I can observe that you are touched with this way of considering the... | |
 | Paul Keen - Literary Collections - 2004 - 380 pages
...with a rod of iron; and our empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united...which Heaven never gave, — by means which it never can sanction. These reflections are the only antidotes to those anathemas of super-human eloquence... | |
 | Bible - 1846 - 816 pages
...violence and terror ; and that her empire in the East would long since have been lost to Great Britan, if alternate fraud and force, if civil skill and military...authority which Heaven never gave, by means which Heaven never could sanction. Nothing furnishes a more striking parallel to the course of the English... | |
 | Genealogy - 2007 - 180 pages
...with a rod of iron; and our empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united...authority, which Heaven never gave, by means which it never can sanction. Gentlemen, I think I can observe that you are touched with this way of considering the... | |
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