 | John Esten Cooke - 1860 - 506 pages
...the orator advanced at last to the dividing line — the gulf between submission and revolution : " If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retreat from the contest ! There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged... | |
 | William Wirt - 1860 - 482 pages
...invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, ann who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone... | |
 | 1860 - 122 pages
...their side. In a speech Patrick Henry made about this time, he said, ' We do not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.' " In May, 1776, Congress again met, and a Committee... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 pages
...invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God, who presides over the...is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, air, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the... | |
 | Christian Nestell Bovee - 1862 - 256 pages
...we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Sir, the battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave." What are your means for accomplishing so great a work ? is the usual inquiry addressed... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...groaning — the Bound harmonizing with the sense. LESSON" V. — RESISTANCE TO BRITISH OPPRESSION. THE battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the active, the vigilant, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1843 - 260 pages
...by any force which our enemy can send against us. 11. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies...alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. 12. Besides, sir, we have no election.13 If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1863 - 274 pages
...in our power. The battle, 6 not to the strong alone : it is to the vigilant, the aetive, the brase. we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire fromj eontest. The war is inevitable — and let it eome. Our brethren! already in the field. Why stand... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil | leads us ' with an attractive majesty. 5. There isaJustQod i who presides over the destinies of nations, and who...will raise up friends | to fight our battles for us. 6. Ago | thou art shamed! Rome JI thou hast lost tho breed of noble bloods ! 6. The orator having finished... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...dispersion. ELOQUENCE OP STATESMEN. 271 11. ON RESISTANCE TO BRITISH OPPRESSION. — Patrick Henry. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the active, the vigilant, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election ! If we were base enough to desire... | |
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There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. 
