 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 pages
...incurable resentment the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never." He affirmed that our own army was infected with the contagion of these illiberal allies, and that the... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 pages
...rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop remained in my country, I never would lay down my arms-™ , never, never. 19. ORATORICAL ACTION. — Fordyce. It will not, I think, be pretended, that any of our public speakers... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to over-run them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the...never would lay down my arms ; — Never, never, never ! But, my Lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never ! But, my lords, who is the man that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 pages
...rely ; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder ; devoting...never would lay down my arms, never ! never ! never ! " Your own army is infected with the contagion of these illiberal allies. The spirit of plunder and... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never ! But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, aa I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...lay down my arms — Never ! — never ! — never ! But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the...never would lay down my arms; — Never, never, never ! to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the...never would lay down my arms — Never, never, never ! But, my Lords, who is the man that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 498 pages
...enslave and oppress them. Upon this clear ground, instead of chastisement they are entitled to redress. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...would lay down my arms — never — never — never. And again Lord Chatham said : I would sell my shirt from off my back to assist in proper measures,... | |
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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. 
