 | Ireland - 1805 - 428 pages
...in their boats, before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline,...of ground, burn every blade of grass, and the last entrenchment of liberty should be my grave. What I could not do myself if I should fall, I should leave... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 508 pages
...in their boats, before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline,...last charge to my countrymen to accomplish ; because 1 should feel conscious that life, any more than death, is unprofitable, when a foreign nation holds... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 354 pages
...in their boats before .they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior' discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, raze every house, burn every blade of grass—the last spot in which the hope of freedom should desert... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 348 pages
...them in their boats before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, raze every house, burn every blade of grass — the last spot in which the hope of freedom should desert... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...them in their boats before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, raze every house, burn every blade of grass—the last spot in which the hope of freedom should desert... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...their bouts, be for? to-. . y had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, raze every house, burn every blade ol grass j the last spot in which the hope of freedom should desert... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...in their boats, before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, raze every house, burn every blade or grass — the last spot in which the hope of freedom should desert... | |
 | Orators - 1834 - 602 pages
...they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retirv before superior discipline, I would dispute every...my grave. What I could not do myself, if I should &iL I should leave as a last charge to my countrymen to accomplish : because I should feel conscious... | |
 | Member of the bar - English orations - 1836 - 560 pages
...in their boats, before they had contaminated the soil of mv country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline,...every blade of grass, and the last intrenchment of libertv should be my grave. What I could not do myself, if I should fall, I should leave as a last... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...in their boats, before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, raze every house, burn every blade of grass, and the last intrenchment of liberty should be my grave.... | |
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I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, burn every blade... 
