 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 628 pages
...sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...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... | |
 | 1840 - 582 pages
...sons of rapine and plunder ! devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...never would lay down my arms, — never, never, never ! But, my Lords, who is the man that, in addition to these disgraces of our army, has dared to authorise... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 pages
...sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...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... | |
 | 1840 - 452 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty- If I were an American, as 1 am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...rapine, nnd plun-der, devoting them, and their possessions, | to tin rapacity of hireling cruelty. | If I were an American, | as I am an Englishman, |...lay down my arms — | Never ! | Nev'er ! | Nev;er ! | But, my lords, who is the man | that, iii addition to the disgraces, and mischiefs of the war,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...of rapine and plunder ; devoting- them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...would lay down my arms — never — never — never. Your own army is infected with ihe contagion of these illiberal allies. The spirit of plunder and of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 pages
...sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 350 pages
...of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never! never! never!"—Such language, used in the modern days of ultra loyalty and extreme... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 688 pages
...possessions to the rapacity of hireling " cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an En" glishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my " country,...never would lay down my arms ; never ; " never ; never ! " But who is the man that has dared to authorise " and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalp"... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1842 - 408 pages
...than human, when at the time of our struggle, he dared to say in the British Parliament : " But were I an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my soil, I never would lay down my arms, no, never ! " This gave to Fox his matchless ardor and energy,... | |
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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! 
