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" For my own part, I will resist it to the last gasp of my existence and with the last drop of my blood, and when I feel the hour of my dissolution approaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar and swear them to eternal... "
Crokeriana, Or, "Familiar Epistles": Republished and Dedicated to Trinity ... - Page 32
1818 - 51 pages
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An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that ...

Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 508 pages
...his dissolution approaching he would, like the father of Hannibal, take his children to the altar, and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom. Mr. C. Osborne supported the Union, on the firmest conviction of its propriety and necessity to preserve...
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The History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 2

Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 556 pages
...his dissolution approaching he won!4» like the father of Hannibal, take his children to the altar and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom *. A lengthened discussion still 'ensued. Almost every member who had ever spoken in that bouse now...
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The History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 2

Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 552 pages
...his dissolution approaching he would, like the father of Hannibal, take his children to th» altar and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom *. A lengthened discussion still ensued. Almost every member who had ever spoken in that house now...
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The Pride of Britannia Humbled: Or, The Queen of the Ocean Unqueen'd, "by ...

William Cobbett - United States - 1815 - 228 pages
...of their dis.solution approaching, like the father of Hannibal to take their children to the altar, and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's liberty and independence; yet would I stimulate by the most reasonable argumentation the votaries of...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...hour of my dissolution approaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom. — Sir, I shall not detain you by pursuing this question through the topics which it so abundantly...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 3

1821 - 522 pages
...of my dissolution approaching, ! will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar, and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom. Sir, I shall not detain you by pursuing this question through the topics which it so abundantly offers....
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...of my dissolution approaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar, and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom. — Sir, I shall not detain you by pursuing this question through the topics which it so abundantly...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitations: Founded on the Enquiry in the ...

John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...of my dissolution approaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar, and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom. Sir, I shall not detain you by pursuing this subject through the various topics which it so abundantly...
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The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 1

Law - 1831 - 446 pages
...of my dissolution a¡.proaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar, and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom." His lordship has changed his mind wonderfully for the better; and relaxing somewhat from the steruness...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1833 - 714 pages
...hour of my dissolution approaching, I will like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar, and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom." Again, he said; " I shall be proud to send my name down on the roll with those who have resisted the...
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