 ... 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.  The Pamphleteer - Page 5edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 pages
...every German despot: your attempts will be forever vain and im'pojent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates,...adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rajaine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the ragacity of hireling cruelty. If I... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...^shambles of every German despot: your attempts will be forever "'"impotent; doubly so, indeed, from this """mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your +adverearies, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...shambles of a foreign country : — your efforts are for ever im'potent and vain ; doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you 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 them and their... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent — doubly so from this 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 * Under General Burgoyne. This prediction of the... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...every German despot: your attempts will be for ever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates,...rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions te the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...every German despot; your attempts will be forever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates,...mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them aiid their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...shambles of a foreign country : your efforts are forever vain, and impotent, — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you 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 them and their possessions... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...every little German Prince, — your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this 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 and plunder ; devoting them and their... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark, Frederic Mason Blanchard - Oratory - 1899 - 326 pages
...prince ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which yon rely ; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Books and reading - 1900 - 504 pages
...the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent — doubly so from this 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 and plunder ; devoting them and their... | |
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