 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and...may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable ; and let it come ! I repeat it, Sir, let it come ! It is in vain, Sir, to extenuate the... | |
 | 1853 - 496 pàgines
...Siteratut in 9Zort»3lmerica. were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come!! I repeat it, sir, let it come!!! It is rain, sir, to extenuate the... | |
 | Ida Ehrlich - 2005 - 587 pàgines
...base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest There is no retreat but hi submission and slavery! Our chains are forged, their...plains of Boston. The war is inevitable—and let it comet I repeat it, sir, let it come! (From Patrick Henry's speech, March 23, 1775.) KEY NO. 126 POST... | |
 | William John Bennett - 1997 - 440 pàgines
...sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come!! I repeat it, sir, let it come!!! "It is vain, sir, to extenuate the... | |
 | Frank R. Shivers - 1998 - 348 pàgines
...Wirt's, not Henry's. Here is the ending of the speech, including Wirt's description of the moment: "There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — let it come.'! I repeat it, sir, let it come!!! "It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2001 - 392 pàgines
...sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and...be heard on the plains of Boston! . . . The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pàgines
...sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable - and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - 2000 - 426 pàgines
...speak: Fightin' Words The House of Burgesses was the lower house of the colonial Assembly of Virgin ia. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pàgines
...sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - 2000 - 264 pàgines
...sir, we have no election. It we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable— and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the... | |
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If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come!... 
