 | 1851 - 560 pages
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...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 ! 47. ON FREQUENT EXECUTIONS, 1777. — Sir W. N eredith. WHETHER hanging ever did, or can, answer... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...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 ! 47. ON FREQUENT EXECUTIONS, 1777.— Sir W. Mertdith. WHETHER hanging ever did, or can, answer any... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...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 and of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...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.... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...voting them and their possessions to the rapacity of " hireling cruelty ! lf I were an American, as I am an " Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...But, my Lords, who is the man that in addition to " these disgraces and mischiefs of our army, has dared to " authorise and associate to our arms the... | |
 | Basil Williams - Political Science - 1966 - 440 pages
...years teaching them the art of war : they are apt scholars . . . My Lords, if I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...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... | |
 | Mormons - 1898 - 494 pages
...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 a foreign troop was landed...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... | |
 | Erik Barnouw - Social Science - 1970 - 426 pages
...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 a foreign troop was landed...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... | |
 | Terence H. Wilbur - 1977 - 156 pages
...that there is something behind the Throne greater than the Throne itself." "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." In the speech of Somers on the trial of the bishops as reported by Macaulay we have a good example... | |
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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... 
