 | Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis - 1837 - 506 páginas
...motives, and views. I was certainly desirous of avoiding this interview for the most cogent reasons. to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws. 2. My wife and children are extremely dear to me, and my life is of the utmost importance to them in... | |
 | Aaron Burr - 1837 - 510 páginas
...motives, and views. I was certainly desirous of avoiding this interview for the most cogent reasons. to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws. 2. My wife and children are extremely dear to me, and my life is of the utmost importance to them in... | |
 | Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - 1925 - 438 páginas
...Much was to be made of his statement, written the evening before his fatal duel, to the effect that "my religious and moral principles are strongly opposed...give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws" — but in his younger days, certainly,... | |
 | 1852 - 670 páginas
...and views. I was certainly desirous of avoiding this interview, for the most cogent reasons. " Fini. My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed...practice of duelling; and it would ever give me pain to shed the blood of a fellow creature, in a private combat, forbid-den by the laws. " Secondly. My wife... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 páginas
...portion of mankind. " My religious and moral principles," says he in a paper found after his death, " are strongly opposed to the practice of duelling,...fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws."* To stand up against prevailing but bad customs; to brave the smile of contempt and the finger of scorn... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1844 - 546 páginas
...to fire at Col. Burr. He gave his testimony against duelling in the same paper, in theso words : " My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to the practice of duelling. It would ever give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow-creature in a private combat... | |
 | 1846 - 110 páginas
...was certainly desirous of avoiding, this interview, for the most cogent reasons.. First, my religion, and moral principles are strongly opposed to the practice...duelling, and it would ever give me pain to be obliged ü shed the blood of a fellow creature in a private combat, forbidden by the laws. Second, my wife... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1847 - 478 páginas
...and views. " I was certainly desirous of avoiding this interview, for the most cogent reasons. 1 . My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed...give me pain, to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow creature in a private combat, forbidden by the law. 2. My wife and children are extremely dear... | |
 | 1847 - 666 páginas
...and views. I was certainly desirous of avoiding this interview, for the most cogent reasous. " Pint. ear shed the blood of a fellow creature, in a private combat, forhidden by tbejaws. " Secondly. My wife... | |
 | Lorenzo Sabine - 1855 - 414 páginas
...words : — " I was certainly desirous of avoiding this interview, for the most cogent reasons. "1. My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed...fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws. " 2. My wife and children are extremely dear to me, and my life is of the utmost importance to them,... | |
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My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to the practice of duelling, and it would ever give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws. 
