 | Aaron Burr - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 552 pages
...overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another — this man, thus ruined and undone and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama...principal offender, while he, by whom he was thus plunged in misery, is comparatively innocent, a mere accessory! Is this reason? Is it law? Is it humanity?... | |
 | Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 652 pages
...in misery, is comparatively innocent, a mere accessor},-! Is this reason? Is it law? Is it humanity? Sir, neither the human h,eart nor the human understanding will bear a perversion Bo monstrous and absurd! so shocking to the soul! so revolting to reason! Let Aaron Uurr then not shrink... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...and overwhelmed by th.e mastering spirit and geniusof another—this man, thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama of guilt and treason—thiswian is to be called the prh>cipal offender;; while he, by whom he was thus plunged and... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another — this man, thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama...called the principal offender } while he by whom he was plunged and steeped in misery, is comparatively innocent — a mere accessory. Sir, neither the human... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...and overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another—this man thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama of guilt and treason—this man is to be called the principal offender ; while he by whom he was thus plunged and... | |
 | George Watterston - Statesmen - 1818 - 158 pages
...and genius of another; this man, thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in his grand drama of guilt and treason ; this man is to...called the principal offender ; while he, by whom lie was thus plunged and steeped in misery, is comparatively innocent — • a mere accessary. Sir,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...and overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another—this man, thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama...while he, by whom he was thus plunged and steeped b misery, is comparatively innocent—a mere accessory. Sir, neither the human heart nor the human... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 520 pages
...overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another — this man, thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama...principal offender, while he, by whom he was thus plunged in misery, is comparatively innocent, a mere accessory ! Is this rea son? Is it law? Is it humanity?... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 518 pages
...overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another — this man, thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama...man is to be called the principal offender, while lie, by whom he was thus plunged in misery, is comparatively innocent, a mere accessory ! Is this reason... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another — this man, thus mined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama...principal offender, while he, by whom he was thus plunged in misery, is comparatively innocent, a mere accessary ! Is this reason? Is it law? Is it humanity?... | |
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... Yet this unfortunate man, thus deluded from his interest and his happiness, thus seduced from the paths of innocence and peace, thus confounded in the toils that were deliberately spread for him and overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of... 
