| William Fordyce Mavor - America - 1804 - 432 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled to the most barbarous dgts, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He. has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear anus against thejr country, lo become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Richard Snowden - America - 1805 - 398 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bean arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1898 - 622 pages
...seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, & destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries, to compleat the works of death, desolation & tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in {he most... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...cruelty and perfidity, scarcely parallelled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the heart of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Connecticut - Law - 1821 - 536 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 520 pages
...seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people, he is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries,...compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation. he... | |
| Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against theii; country, to become the executionera,'of their ' 30 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY:... | |
| Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. • He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear anas against heir country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| John Adams - Presidents - 1823 - 456 pages
...seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. he is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries,...compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation. he... | |
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