| Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 504 trang
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...would lay down my arms — never — never — never ! " Your own army is infected with the contagion of these illiberal allies. — The spirit of plunder... | |
| Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 730 trang
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...would lay down my arms — never — never — never ! " Your own army is infected with the contagion of these illiberal allies. — The spirit of plunder... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 trang
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...would lay down my arms — never — never — never. CXXXII. SPEECH OF CASSI0S TO BRUTUS, IN CONTEMPT OF C.ESA.U. Extract from Shakspeare. Julius Caesar.... | |
| Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 520 trang
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never—never—never ! " Your own army is infected with the contagion of these illiberal allies.—The... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 trang
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorise and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage ? — to call into... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 trang
...devoting them and their " possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! " If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, " while a foreign troop was landed...would lay down my arms — never — " never — never ! * Parl. Hist., vol. xix. p. 363. It is remarkable that the same foresight was shown by Washington.... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 trang
...house*, as men', as Christians*, to protest against this horrible barbarity. If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...would lay down my arms — never', never', never'. The adoption of the low key on the last never indicates settled resolution, which expresses itself... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 trang
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...never would lay down my arms. Never, never, never ! — Earl of Chatham. DECLAMATION. These abominable principles, and this most abominable avowal of... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 trang
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...never would lay down my arms — never! never! never!' — Such language, seed in the modern days of ultra loyalty and extreme decorum, would call down upon... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 460 trang
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...never would lay down my arms, never ! never ! never !" Such language, used in the modern days of ultra loyalty and extreme decorum, would call down upon... | |
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