 Peace, peace ! ' — but there is no peace : the war is actually begun ! — The next gale that sweeps from the north, will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms...  The London Magazine - Stran 4191822Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Joseph Glover Baldwin - 1855 - 380 strani
...Henry's style was pure Saxon-Bible-english. He spoke in no such scanned lines as " the next breeze, that sweeps from the North, will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms." This is Wirt's rhetoric, not Henry's eloquence. The short, vigorous, pictorial sentences, winged with... | |
 | Salem Town - 1856 - 420 strani
...sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace ; but there is no peace. The war has actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash _ of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle ? What is it... | |
 | 1872 - 806 strani
...all the art of Demosthenes, while exhibiting all his genius. How strangely prophetic the sentence, " The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms " ! These words were spoken on the 23d of March, 1 775, while the people were joyously repeating the... | |
 | 1857 - 528 strani
...almost have flown from Boston ;" thus nearly verifying the words of Patrick Henry a month before, — " the next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears, the clash of resounding arms !" The second letter dates from the camp before Norfolk, in December of the same year, just after the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 strani
...and — let it Cornell! I repeat it, LET IT COME V !! 8. It is in vain to extenuate the matter v . Gentlemen may cry peace', peace'; but there is no**- peace. The war is actually begun v . The next gale that sweeps from the north, will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms v... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 694 strani
...his argument with the following splendid peroration. " ' It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the maiter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is already begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 420 strani
...Boston ! The war is inevitable, and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! 11. It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace,...will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Oar brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle 1 What is it that gentlemen wish 1... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 1454 strani
...of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace !...gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our cars the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand wo hero idle ?... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 strani
...and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring...are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle 1 What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to... | |
 | H. O. Apthorp - 1858 - 312 strani
...peat it, | sir, | "] *] | let it | come! | *] *] | *] *] | It is in | vain, sir, | *< to ex- | teuuate the | matter. | *] "] | Gentlemen may | cry | peace,...peace. | *] *] | *] *] | *] The | war is | actually be- | gun! | *] *] | "| *] | *] The | next | gale that | sweeps from the | north | "] will | bring... | |
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