 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 782 strani
...Hill, Gage offered a pardon to all rebels excepting Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose offenses are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than of condign punishment." This virulent proscription, intended to be their ruin, widely extended their... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 792 strani
...Gage offered a pardon to all rebels excepting Samuel Adams and John Hancock, '• whose offenses are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than of condign punishment." This virulent proscription, intended to be their ruin, widely extended their... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 strani
...Hill, Gage offered a pardon to all rebels excepting Samuel Adame and John Hancock, "whose offenses aro of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than of condign punishment." This virulent proscription, intended to he their ruin, widely extended their... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 strani
...save and except Samuel Adams and John Hancock, the offences of those arch traitors being considered " of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration, than that of condign punishment." This formidable denunciation, " a mark of distinction," as Eliot observes, which " many men in these... | |
 | William Vincent Wells - 1865 - 534 strani
...: excepting only from the benefit of such pardon SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." l The Governor, by thus proscribing the two prominent characters in the Revolutionary party, only added... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 strani
...excepting from this act of grace Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences, it was stilted, were " of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." The same proclamation announced the operation of martial law in Massachusetts as long as the unhappy... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, James McKellar Bugbee, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham - 1875 - 28 strani
...as should lay down their arms, excepting only Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were " of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." On the I3th of June, the Committee of Safety at Cambridge received information that Gage proposed to... | |
 | Edward Emerson Bourne - 1875 - 886 strani
...God-given rights of man. Though Governor Gage denounced him and Samuel Adams as guilty of offenses u of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment," and, therefore, no pardon could be accorded to them, while it might be granted to every body else ;... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1875 - 140 strani
...all who will return to loyalty with exception of Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." This is an honor many a patriot would gladly risk his life to receive, and only serves to strengthen... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1876 - 156 strani
...all who will return to loyalty with exception of Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." This is an honor many a patriot would gladly risk his life to receive, and only serves to strengthen... | |
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HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. 
