 | English literature - 1817 - 526 pages
...plate ; and I had great reason to expect I should have returned to France within six month» ifter I embarked for America. But circumstances in America...what was my first intention. My motive for landing at your estate in Scotland Was to take you ae an hostage for the lives and liberty of a number of the... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 526 pages
...charge of BO delicate a nature us your pkte ; and I had great reason to expect I should have returned to France within six months after I embarked for America....expectation of it. The long delay that has happened la the restoration of your plate has erven ine much concern, and I now led a proportionate pleasure... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pages
...charge of so delicate a nature as your plate; and I had great reason to expect I should have returned to France within six months after I embarked for America....what was my first intention. My motive for landing at your estate in Scotland was to take you as an hostage for the lives and liberty of a number of the... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1820 - 474 pages
...charge of so delicate a nature as your plate, and I had great reason to expect I fhould have returned to France within six months after I embarked for America ; but circumstances r»l. X. No. LV. in America prevented my returning to Europe during the war, though 1 had constant... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 566 pages
...been solemnly published, war was inevitable, The French Ambassador had been ordered to leave London, my people when I commanded the Ranger, and has been...what was my first intention. My motive for landing at your estate in Scotland was to tako you as a hostage for the lives and liberty of a number of the... | |
 | John Paul Jones - United States - 1830 - 358 pages
...by some of my people when I commanded the Ranger, and has been for a long time past in Mr Nesbitfs care. A short time before I left France to return...what was my first intention. My motive for landing at your estate in Scotland was to take you as an hostage for the lives and liberty of a number of the... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 578 pages
...America, Mr. W. Alexander wrote me from Paris to L'Orient, that he had, at my request, seen and convened with your Lordship in England respecting the plate....what was my first intention. My motive for landing at your estate in Scotland was to take you. as a hostage for the lives and liberty of a number of the... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 564 pages
...had agreed that I should restore it, and that it might be forwarded to the care of your sister-inInw, the Countess of Morton, in London. In consequence,...fulfilling what was my first intention. My motive for lauding at your estate in Scotland was to take yon as a hostage for the lives and liberty of a number... | |
 | Walter Scott - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1833 - 496 pages
...charge of so delicate a nature as your plate ; and I had great reason to expect I should have returned to France within six months after I embarked for America....what was my first intention. My motive for landing at your estate in Scotland, was to take you as an hostage for the lives and liberty of a number of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1833 - 552 pages
...charge of so delicate a nature as your plate ; and 1 had great reason to expect I should have returned to France within six months after I embarked for America....what was my first intention. My motive for landing at your estate in Scotland, was to take you as an hostage for the lives and liberty of a number of... | |
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L'Orient, that I could trust with a charge of so delicate a nature as your plate, and I had great reason to expect I should return to France within six months after I embarked for America; but circumstances in America, prevented my returning to Europe... 
