 | William Ellery Channing - 1837 - 72 էջ
...cover, under which selfish adventurers from another country have prosecuted their work of plunder. Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the...colonists and their coadjutors can satisfy themselves 20 with nothing short of an empire. They have left their Anglo Saxon ancestors behind them. Those barbarians... | |
 | 1837 - 652 էջ
...and to quote. In the meanwhile Dr. Channing says, with the magnanimous eloquence that he commands, " Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the...Texas by our citizens is entitled. Modern times," continues he, " furnish no example of individual rapine on so grand a scale. It is nothing less than... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1844 - 666 էջ
...1834, AND Ma. URQUHART in 1838, ON THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS. (From Dr. Channing's Letter to Mr. Clay.) "Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of...of Texas by our citizens is entitled. Modern times famish no example of individual rapine on so grand a scale. It is nothing less than the robbery of... | |
 | Jonathan Sharp (pseud.) - 1845 - 1154 էջ
...execration, said, one day: — VOL. II. D i " Some crimes, by their magnitude, hare a touch of the sublime ; to this dignity, the seizure of Texas by our citizens is entitled." But he was wrong ; the infamous deed had no touch of the sublime ; it was a miserable felony, perpetrated... | |
 | John Gaylord - 1855 - 206 էջ
...land with which we were at peace ? No ! On the contrary its presence gave confidence to the revolters. Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the...rapine on so grand a scale. It is nothing less than the robbing of a realm. Speaking of the spirit of Ambition for acquiring new territory in ike Anglo-Saxon... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 302 էջ
...should prefer allowing an American writer to speak. ' Some crimes by their magnitude,' says Channing, ' have a touch of the sublime; and to this dignity the...It is nothing less than the robbery of a realm. The pirates seize a ship. The colonists and their coadjutors satisfy themselves with nothing short of an... | |
 | Thomas Colley Grattan - 1859 - 538 էջ
...Extract of Letter from Dr. CHANGING to Mr. CLAY, on Annexation of Texas, and the War with JlTexico. SOME crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the...Modern times furnish no example of individual rapine on ao grand a scale. It is nothing less than the robbery of a realm. The pirate seizes a ship. The colonists... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 էջ
...cover, under which selfish adventurers from another countiy have prosecuted their work of plunder. Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the...example of individual rapine on so grand a scale. Jt is nothing less thnu the robbery of a realm. The pirate seizes a ship. The colonists and their coadjutors... | |
 | Augustin Cochin - 1863 - 432 էջ
...cover, under which selfish adventurers from another country have prosecuted their work of plunder. " Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the...sublime, and to this dignity the seizure of Texas by our fellow-citizens is entitled. Modern times furnish no example of individual rapine on so grand a scale.... | |
 | Augustin Cochin - 1863 - 438 էջ
...cover, under which selfish adventurers from another country have prosecuted their work of plunder. " Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the...sublime, and to this dignity the seizure of Texas by our fellow-citizens is entitled. Modern times furnish no example of individual rapine on so grand a scale.... | |
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Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the sublime ; and to this dignity the seizure of Texas by our citizens is entitled. Modern times furnish no example of individual rapine on so grand a scale. It is nothing less than the robbery of a realm.... 
