The fact was no premeditated barbarity. On the contrary, two chiefs who had brought her off for the purpose of security, not of violence to her person, disputed which should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion in one, from whose hands she was... Glenochel, a descriptive poem - Page 250by James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - 1810Full view - About this book
| Samuel Williams - Natural history - 1809 - 496 pages
...should be her guard ; and in a fit of savage * passion in one, From whose hands she was ' snatched, the unhappy woman became the * victim. Upon the first...the * murderer into my hands ; and though to have 4 punished him by our laws, or principles of jus* tice, would have been perhaps unprecedented, ' he... | |
| Samuel Williams - Natural history - 1809 - 498 pages
...should be her guard ; and in a fit of savage ' passion in one, from' whose hands she was ' snatched, the unhappy woman became the ' victim. Upon the first intelligence of this f event, I obliged the Indians to deliver the ' murderer into my hands ; and though to have ' punished... | |
| 1820 - 544 pages
...which should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion, in one, from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim. Upon the first...our laws, or principles of justice, would have been perhaps unprecedented, he certainly should have suffered an ignominious death, had I not been convinced... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - New England - 1820 - 458 pages
...which should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion, in one, from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim. Upon the first...murderer into my hands, and though, to have punished happened, might therefore have been anticipated, and had General Burgoyne'sarmy continued to be successful,... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - Connecticut - 1820 - 464 pages
...and in a fit of savage passion, in one, from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman berame the victim. Upon the first intelligence of this event, I obliged the Indians to deliver the murder•f into my hands, and though, to have punished "Ppeaed, might therefore have been anticipated,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Curiosities and wonders - 1822 - 368 pages
...which should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion, in one from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim. Upon the first...hands, and though, to have punished him by our laws, or * Lord Chatham. t It is true, that General Burgoyne, in his celebrated speech to the Indians, at the... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1822 - 152 pages
...which should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion in one, from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim. Upon the first...hands, and though to have punished him by our laws, of principles of justice, would have been perhaps unprecedented, he certainly should have suffered... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1822 - 164 pages
...which nhould be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion in one, from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim. Upon the first...deliver the murderer into my hands, and though to bare punished him by our laws, or principles of justice, would have been perhaps unprecedentedhe certainly... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - New England - 1824 - 478 pages
...which should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion, in one from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim- Upon the first...our laws, or principles of justice, would have been perhaps unprecedented, he certainly should have suffered an ignominious death, had I not been convinced... | |
| 1832 - 564 pages
...which should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion in one, from whose hands she was snatehed, the unhappy woman became the victim. Upon the first...by our laws, or principles of justice, would have beer) perhaps unprecedented, he certainly should have suffered an ignominious death, had I not been... | |
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