 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I arn an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 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...would lay down my arms — never — never — never !" . When he came to speak of the employment of the Indians in the service of Britain, his tone was... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapme 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies. To overrun with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never !"* The Earl of Coventry, Earl Temple Chatham's brother-in-law, and the Duke of Richmond, all spoke... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 466 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies. To overrun with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never !'" The Earl of Coventry, Earl Temple Chatham's brother-in-law, and the Duke of Richmond, all spoke... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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! Bnt, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
 | Basil Williams - Political Science - 1966 - 440 pages
.... . You have been three years teaching them the art of war : they are apt scholars . . . My Lords, if I were an American as I am an Englishman, while...would lay down my arms — never — never — never ! Independence, however, he as an Englishman would not grant. ' In a just and necessary war, to maintain... | |
 | Erik Barnouw - Social Science - 1970 - 426 pages
...Pitt, Earl of Chatham, crippled and near death, but rising to demand an end to a war in America: PITT: If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...never would lay down my arms. Never! Never! Never! And there was Kipling, who had once urged Englishmen to take up the "white man's burden" to subdue... | |
 | Mormons - 1898 - 494 pages
...the obstinate, oppressive policy of George III and Lord North, as his father was when he exclaimed, "If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!" Pitt had imbibed this sympathy for the oppressed and this love of freedom, in his youth; and only under... | |
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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. 
