 In some respects it has hardly a precedent anywhere; certainly none in our New England history. This bloody drama exhibited no suddenly excited, ungovernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by any lionlike temptation springing upon their virtue...  The American Jurist and Law Magazine - Page 1261832Full view - About this book
 | John Francis Knapp - 1830 - 258 pages
...by any lion-likef temptation springing upon their virtue, and overcoming it, before resist''! ance could begin. Nor did they do the deed to glut savage vengeance,' or satiate long settled and deadly hale. It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder.— It was nil "hire and salary, not revenge."... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...certainly none in our New-England history. This bloody drama exhibited no suddenly excited, ungovernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by any lion-like...they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled and deadly hate. It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder.—It was all " hire... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pages
...certainly none in our New England history. This bloody drama exhibited no suddenly excited, ungovernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by any lion-like...they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled and deadly hate. It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder. It was all " hire and... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...resistance could begin. Nor dM they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate longsettled or deadly hate. It was a cool, calculating, moneymaking...the weighing of money against life; the counting^ 3 out of so many pieces of silver, against so many ounces oV __• blood. 'A. An aged man, without... | |
 | George Merriam - 1841 - 308 pages
...excited, ungovernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by any lion-hke temptation,- springingupon their virtue, and overcoming it, before resistance...they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled and deadly hate. 4. It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder. It was all " hire... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1843 - 522 pages
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 | George Willson - 1844 - 300 pages
...certainly none in our New England historyTJlThis bloody drama exhibited no suddenly excited SrfoTernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by any lion-like...they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate longsettled or deadly hate. It was a cool, calculating, moneymaking murder. It was all " hire and salary,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...certainly none in our New England history. This bloody drama exhibited no suddenly excited, ungovernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by any lion-like...they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled, and deadly hate. It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder. It waaall "hire and... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...certainly none in our New Kngland history. This bloody drama exhibited no suddenly excited, ungovernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by any lion-like...they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled, and deadly hate. It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder. It was all " hire and... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...exhibited no suddenly excited, ungovernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by anylion-like temptation, springing upon their virtue, and overcoming...they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled, and deadly hate. It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder. It was all " hire and... | |
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