 | 1903 - 696 pages
...duelling, in which, after stating his reluctance at obeying a custom so repugnant to his feelings, he says: "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 forbidden by the laws. My wife and children... | |
 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson - 1909 - 684 pages
...most cogent reasons. My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to duelling, and it would give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a...fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws. My wife and children are extremely dear to me, and my life is of the utmost importance to them. I am... | |
 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson - 1909 - 518 pages
...most cogent reasons. My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to duelling, and it would give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a...fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws. My wife and children are extremely dear to me, and my life is of the utmost importance to them. I am... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - 1910 - 594 pages
...motives 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 laws. 2. My wife and children are extremely dear... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...12, 1804.— UNDERWOOD, FKANCIS H., 1872, A Hand-Book of English Literature, American Authors, p. 29. 0 The Mou shed the blood of a fellow creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws. Secondly — My wife... | |
 | Virgil McClure Harris - 1911 - 496 pages
...motives, 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 laws. "2. My wife and children are extremely dear... | |
 | Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - 1925 - 436 pages
...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,... | |
 | Archibald Williams Patterson - 1927 - 108 pages
...other things: "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... | |
 | Albert Ulmann - 1928 - 324 pages
...thereof he said: "I was certainly desirous of avoiding this interview for the most cogent reasons. "1. My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to the practice of dueling, and it would ever give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellowcreature in a private... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1805 - 910 pages
...motives, and views. 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... | |
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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. 
