 | New-York Historical Society - 1882 - 632 Seiten
...America. The sending the 2 Howes out as Commanders-inChief and Commissioners for restoring Peace, with the Sword in one Hand and the Olive Branch in the other ; and they two at the same time avowedly in the opposition, and Friends to the Americans. The sending three... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1885 - 610 Seiten
...was a realisation of Mettemich's idea of copying Napoleon's own former procedure. "Let us hold always the sword in one hand, and the olive branch in the other ; always ready to negotiate, but only negotiating whilst advancing. Here is Napoleon's system : may... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ramsay Weston Phipps - 1889 - 518 Seiten
...a 1 Mettemich (tome ii. p. 346, compare French edition, tome ii. p. 287) saya, **Let OB bold always the sword in one hand and the olive branch in the other : always ready to negotiate, but only negotiating while advancing. Here is Napoleon's system.11 1805.... | |
 | Joseph Kirkland - 1893 - 232 Seiten
...shame. They had many friends and only one formidable enemy — themselves. The Americans met them with the sword in one hand and the olive branch in the other. They declined the branch and defied the sword. The English offered them gifts in both hands, and they... | |
 | Walter George Smith - 1898 - 522 Seiten
...softened, the fury of war abated. To use his own exquisite, high-flown diction, it was " to march with the sword in one hand and the olive branch in the other. ' ' Sectional animosity gave place to human kindness. And when such dispositions prevail, there is... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 Seiten
...to propose Lord North's pacific plan, but, before the time of their meeting, he began cutting their throats. You know it was said he carried the sword...in the other ; and it seems he chose to give them a touch of the sword first. . . . All America is exasperated by his conduct, and more firmly united than... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 378 Seiten
...to propose Lord North's pacific plan, but, before the time of their meeting, he began cutting their throats. You know it was said he carried the sword...in the other ; and it seems he chose to give them a touch of the sword first. . . . All America is exasperated by his conduct, and more firmly united than... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1903 - 476 Seiten
...questions of slavery, of finance, of tariff, until the Union is restored. We must go into the South with the sword in one hand and the olive branch in the other. We have had blood enough; we must have peace.1 In the Empire State the Democratic managers were cautious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 516 Seiten
...disengaged yourself. B. FRANKLIN. 773. TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY ' (ic) Philadelphia, May 16. 1775 DEAR FRIEND, You will have heard, before this reaches you, of a...fortifications at Boston, and hopes to secure his troops till succour arrives. The place indeed is naturally so defensible, that I think them in no danger. All America... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 502 Seiten
...country by night, and of their expedition back again. They retreated twenty miles in [six] hours.2 The governor had called the Assembly to propose Lord...fortifications at Boston, and hopes to secure his troops till succour arrives. The place indeed is naturally so defensible, that I think them in no danger. All America... | |
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You know it was said he carried the sword in one hand, and the olive branch in the other; and it seems he chose to give them a taste of the sword first. 
