 | Adiel Sherwood - Georgia - 1837 - 376 pages
...offering pardon to the rebels, he and Samuel Adams were especially excepted, their offences being " of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration...place, which produced a temporary schism in the party they headed, and a long personal estrangement between themselves. In fact, they differed so widely... | |
 | 1837 - 490 pages
...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." This was a diploma, conferring greater honours on the individuals, than any other which was within the power... | |
 | 1837 - 488 pages
...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." This was a diploma, conferring greater honours on the individuals, than any other which was within the power... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1838 - 540 pages
...peaceable subjects, excepting only Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were declared to be of " too " flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than "that of condign punishment." By the same instrument Massachusetts was declared to be under martial law. General Gage was also preparing,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Provincial Congress - Massachusetts - 1838 - 866 pages
...countenancing, aiding, and assisting them in the robberies and murders then committed ; whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment : provided, they take the benefit hereof, by making a surrender of themselves to any general officer... | |
 | James Herring - United States - 1839 - 526 pages
...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." This was a diploma, conferring greater honors on the individuals than any other which was within the power... | |
 | William Grimshaw - United States - 1840 - 342 pages
...this indulgence, however, were exccpted, Samuel Adam* and John Hancock. Their offences were said to be of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than the severest punishment. As martial law was at the same time proclaimed, it was supposed that those... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...countenancing, aiding, and assisting them in the robberies and murders then committed ; whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." The battle of Bunker Hill took place on the next day, consequently before this proclamation could have... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...peaceable occupations, excepting only Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were said to be of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign pu• It appears that these few islanders, either from sentiment, or — which is far more probable... | |
 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1844 - 742 pages
...only from the benefit of that pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were said to be of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment He also proclaimed that not only the persons above named and excepted, but also all their adherents,... | |
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HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. 
