 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 pages
...aid on which you rely ; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to over-run them with the mercenary sons of rapine...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
...mercenary aid on which you rely, for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies, — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine...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 - 644 pages
...aid on which you rely -, for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to over-run them with the mercenary sons of rapine...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
...attempts will be for ever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates to an incurable resentment...your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary SOBS of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty-... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...aid on which you rely. For it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine...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
...mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies — to over-run them with the mercenary sons of rapine...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
...incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies, whom you overrun with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the...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
...aid on which you " rely ; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the *' minds of your enemies. To overrun them with the " mercenary sons of rapine...hireling " cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an En" glishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my " country, I never would lay down my arms ; never... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...attempts will be for ever vain and im' potent ; | doubly so indeed | from this mercenary aid on which you rely, ; | for it irritates, to an incurable resent'ment,...to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine, nnd plun-der, devoting them, and their possessions, | to tin rapacity of hireling cruelty. | If I were... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 pages
...attempts for ever will be vain and impotent ; doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates to an incurable resentment...American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop remained in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never. 19. ORATORICAL ACTION.—... | |
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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! 
