| Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1807 - 268 páginas
...general's answer to this dishonorable proposal has been thought worth preserving. "When your brave ancestor was desired by his sovereign to assassinate the duke of Guise, he returned such an answer as you ought to have done, when the king of Spain directed you to make au attempt on... | |
| John Burke - 1832 - 712 páginas
...assassinate the Duke de Guise, he returned the answer which you should have done, when yon were charged to assassinate the character of a man whose birth is as illustrious as your own, or that of the Due de Guise. I can have no further communication with you but in arms. If you have any humanity, pray... | |
| Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 61st (South Gloucestershire) - 1844 - 80 páginas
...October 16, 1?81. " When your brave ancestor was desired by his sovereign " to assassinate the Duo de Guise, he returned the answer which " you should have...birth is as illustrious as " your own, or that of the Duc de Guise. I can have no further " communication with you but in arms. If you have any humanity,... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 468 páginas
...delay of a siege or blockade. The high-minded Scotsman indignantly replied, " When your brave ancestor was desired by his sovereign to assassinate the Duke...assassinate the character of a man whose birth is aa illustrious as your own or that of the Duke of Guise. I can have no other communication with you... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 460 páginas
...Here are his expressions: "When "your brave ancestor was desired, by his Sovereign, to as" sassinate the Duke of Guise, he returned the answer which "you...il"lustrious as your own, or that of the Duke of Guise. lean " have no other communication with you but in arms. If you "have any humanity, pray send clothing... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 458 páginas
...bragging of his own, Lord Elibank's, high race. Here are his expressions : " When your brave ancestor was " desired, by his Sovereign, to assassinate the...have ' done when the King of Spain charged you to assassi' nate the character of a man whose birth is as illustrious ' as your own, or that of the Duke... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 270 páginas
...bragging of his own, Lord Elibank's, high race. Here are his expressions : " When your brave ancestor was " desired, by his Sovereign, to assassinate the...have " done when the King of Spain charged you to assassi" nate the character of a man whose birth is as illustrious " as your own, or that of the Duke... | |
| Thomas Carter - 1860 - 742 páginas
...16th, 1781. " SIR, — When your brave ancestor was desired by his sovereign to assassinate the Due de Guise, he returned the answer which you should have...birth is as illustrious as your own, or that of the Due de Guise. I can have no further communication with you but in arms. If you have any humanity, you... | |
| John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 644 páginas
...returned this answer to De Crillon : — u When your brave ancestor was desired by his sovereign ;•. assassinate the duke of Guise, he returned the answer...when the king of Spain charged you to assassinate the cliaracter of a man whose birth is as illustrious as your own, or that of the duke of Guise. I can... | |
| Henry James Morgan - 1862 - 808 páginas
...assassinate the Duke de Guise, he returned the answer which you should have thought of when you attempted to assassinate the character of a man whose birth is as illustrious as your own, or that of the Duke de Guise. I can have no further communication with you but in arms. If you have any humanity, pray... | |
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