 | Thomas Campbell - 1807 - 556 pages
...honour. But can the sense of honour flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds ? Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me ask...associated to their cause ? Have they entered into al- / liance with the king of the gypsies ? Nothing, my lords, is too low, or too ludicrous, to be... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...plunder, or the practice of murder ? Can it flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds ? Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me ask...Have they entered into alliance with the king of the gypsies ? Nothing, my lords, is too low or too ludicrous to be consistent with their counsels. The... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...plunder, or the practice of murder ?—Can it flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds ?—-Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me...?—Have they entered into alliance with the king of the gypsies ?—Nothing, my lords; is too low or too ludicrous to be consistent with their counsels; "... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...plunder, or the practice of murder ? Can it flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to crue\ deeds ? Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me ask...Have they entered into alliance with the king of the gypsies? Nothing, my Lords, is too low or too ludicrous to, be consistent with their counsels. ' The... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 378 pages
...plunder, or the practice of murder ? Can it flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds ? Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me ask...Have they entered into alliance with the king of the gypsies? Nothing, my Lords, is too low or too ludicrous to be consistent with their counsels. ' The... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1814 - 736 pages
...plunder, or the practice of murder? Can it flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds ? Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me ask...Have they entered into alliance with the king of the gypsies? Nothing, my lords, is too low or too ludicrous to be cousistent .with their counsels. The... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...murther ? Can it flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds ? Beside these murtherers and plunderers, let me ask our ministers, what other...associated to their cause ? Have they entered into alliance Avith the King of the Gypsies? — Nothing, my Lords, is too low, or too ludicrous, to be consistent... | |
 | James Robins - 1824 - 490 pages
...defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of this barbarous war against our brethren ? — Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me ask...Have they entered into alliance with the king of the gypsies? Nothing, my lords, is too low or too ludicrous to be consistent with their counsels." Lord... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 pages
...of honour. But can the sense of honour flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds? Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me ask...their counsels ! " The independent views of America," said the noble earl, " have been assumed as the just grounds of hostility. But whatever might be the... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...and " punishment — unless thoroughly done away, it " will be a stain on the national character. " The independent views of America have been " stated...foundation of this " Address. My Lords, no man wishes for the " due dependence of America on this country " more than I do. To preserve it, and not con"... | |
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What makes ambition virtue? The sense of honor. But is the sense of honor consistent with a spirit of plunder or the practice of murder? Can it flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds ? Besides these murderers and plunderers, let... 
