 | John Paul Jones - United States - 1830 - 358 pages
...tracks of British tyranny in America, from which neither virgin-innocence nor helpless age has been a plea of protection or pity. " Leith and its port...officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by the means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress.. For this reason,... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 572 pages
...a plea of protection or pity. " Leith and its port now lays at our mercy ; and did not the plea of humanity stay the hand of just retaliation, I should,...officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by the means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress. For this reason... | |
 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - 1841 - 284 pages
...virgin innocence nor helpless age has been a plea of protection or pity. " Leith and its port now lie at our mercy ; and, did not, our humanity stay the...officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress. For this reason, I... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1845 - 416 pages
...tracks of British tyranny in America, from which neither virgin innocence nor helpless age has been a plea of protection or pity. " Leith and its port...officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by the means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress. For this reason,... | |
 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - 1845 - 310 pages
...virgin innocence nor helpless age has been a plea of protection or pity. " Leith and its port now lie at our mercy ; and, did not our humanity stay the...officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress. For this reason, I... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 436 pages
...a plea of protection or pity. " Leith and its port now lays at our mercy ; and did not the plea of humanity stay the hand of just retaliation, I should,...officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by the means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress. For this reason... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 422 pages
...a plea of protection or pity. " Leith. and its port now lays at our mercy ; and did not the plea of humanity stay the hand of just retaliation, I should,...officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by the means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress. For this reason... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 434 pages
...and did not the plea of humanity stay the hand of just retaliation, I should, without ad vertisemtnt, lay it in ashes. Before I proceed to that stern duty as an officer, my duty as a man induces roe to propose to you, by the means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress.... | |
 | John Paul Jones - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 - 1855 - 560 pages
...a plea of protection or pity. " Leith and its port now lays at our mercy ; and did not the plea of humanity stay the hand of just retaliation, I should,...officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by the means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress. For this reason... | |
 | Henry Brougham Farnie - Fife (Scotland) - 1860 - 286 pages
...retaliation, I should, without advertisement, lay it in ashes. Before I proceed to that stern duty as au officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you, by the means of a reasonable ransom, to prevent such a scene of horror and distress. For this reason,... | |
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Leith and its port now lies at our mercy ; and did not our humanity stay the hand of just retaliation, I should, without advertisement, lay it in ashes. Before I proceed to that stern duty as an officer, my duty as a man induces me to propose to you,... 
