 | C. H. Wilson - Dungannon volunteer meetings - 1782 - 468 pages
...xaggerateddefcrrption : " With* out arms, ammunition, ilifcipline, revenue,- government, or ally, almoft tota;ly ftript of commerce^ and in the weakness of youth, as it were, " with a ftaff and a fling only," Ihe dared, " in the name of the Lord of Hofts," to engage a gigantic adverfary,... | |
 | John Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 650 pages
...great and increasing depreciation of your currency requires the immediate, strenuous and united efforts of all true friends to their country, for preventing...totally stript of commerce, and in the weakness of youth,as it were with a " staff and a sling" only, dared " in the name of the Lord of Hosts" to engage... | |
 | John Lawless - Belfast (Northern Ireland) - 1818 - 498 pages
...the situation of America in the beginning of the contest, hear her own unexaggerated description. " -Without arms, ammunition, discipline, revenue, government,...ally, almost totally stript of commerce, and in the wenknessof youth: as it were, " with a staff and a sling only," she. dared, " in the name of the Lord... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...to their country, for preventing1 an extension of the mischiefs that have already flowed from jthat source. America, without arms, ammunition, discipline,...of Hosts," to engage a gigantic adversary, prepared »t all point*, blasting of bis strength, and of whom even mighty warrior* "were greatly afraid." For... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...and increasing depreciation of your currency requires the immediate, strenuous, and united efforts of all true friends to their country, for preventing...mischiefs that have already flowed from that source. adversary, prepared »t all points, bcasting of hi; •trength, and of whom «теп mighty warrior*... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 874 pages
...great and increasing depreciation of your currency requires the immediate, strenuous and united efforts of all true friends to their country, for preventing...and a sling" only, dared, " in the name of the Lord ol Hosts," to engage a gigantic adversary, prepared at all points, boasting of his strength, ana of... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - Finance - 1839 - 272 pages
...great and increasing depreciation of your currency requires the immediate, strenuous and united efforts of all true friends to their country, for preventing...mischiefs, that have already flowed from that source. For defraying the expenses of this uncommon war, your representatives to 1 Resolves of the General... | |
 | Economics - 1846 - 594 pages
...illustriousCongrcss raised its voice again, in the following appeal : — " America, almost totally stripped of commerce, and in the weakness of youth, as it were,...gigantic adversary prepared at all points, boasting of its strength, and of whom even mighty warriors 'were greatly afraid.' Our enemies prosecuting the war... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - Finance - 1879 - 394 pages
...especially that the condition of the currency required the immediate, strenuous, and united efforts of all true friends to their country for preventing an extension of the mischiefs which had already flowed from that source. Having declared that Congress was "obliged to emit paper... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 716 pages
...without arms, without ammunition, discipline, revenue, government, or ally; almost totally stripped of commerce, and in the weakness of youth ; as it...gigantic adversary, prepared at all points, boasting bis strength, and of whom mighty warriors were greatly afraid.'1 This was their own estimate of the... | |
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