 | Arthur Gilman - 1876 - 154 страници
...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... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 страници
...subjects, 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. And to the end that no person within the limits of this proffered mercy may plead ignorance of the... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office, Allen C. Beach - 1879 - 522 страници
...of General Gage issued by order of the King, and this on the express ground that their offenses were of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. could only be successfully cultivated by negro labor. Once, indeed, New York had more slaves than Virginia,... | |
 | Robert Dickson Smith - 1880 - 76 страници
...Hancock were alone excepted from Gen. Gage's proclamation of pardon in 1775, " their offences being of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment;" how, when the ancient government of Massachusetts was abrogated by Great Britain by the repeal of our... | |
 | 1883 - 994 страници
...government, "excepting only from the benefit of such pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offenses are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." He afterward remarked that the rel>els added "insult to outrage" as, " wilh a preposterous parade of... | |
 | 1892 - 848 страници
...proclamation offering pardon to all the rebels except Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." Hancock was one of the Massachusetts delegates to the second Continental Congress, and upon the withdrawal... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - 1884 - 686 страници
..." 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." 2 This proclamation, which served only to show the situation of it8 author, and his anger toward the... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1884 - 690 страници
...submission, "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."2 Samuel Adams, as a member of Congress, now enters upon a career, which takes him from... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1884 - 644 страници
..." 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."2 Samuel Adams, as a member of Congress, now enters upon a career, which takes him from... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1885 - 492 страници
...government, "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." He afterwards remarked that the rebels added " insult to outrage " as, " with a preposterous parade... | |
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HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. 
