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" I scorn your proffers. I disdain your favor. I abhor your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. "
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Page 36
by Horace Walpole - 1806
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Legislation by three of the thirteen Stanleys kings of Man. Acts of sir John ...

sir John Stanley - 1860 - 278 pages
...from me that I should, like you, prove treacherous to my sovereign; since you cannot be insensible of my former actings in his late Majesty's service...delivering up this Island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. Take this your final answer ; and forbear...
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Publications of the Manx Society, Volume 3

Manx Society - 1860 - 274 pages
...from me that I should, like you, prove treacherous to my sovereign; since you cannot be insensible of my former actings in his late Majesty's service;...delivering up this Island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. Take this your final answer; and forbear...
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Legislation by Three of the Thirteen Stanleys, Kings of Man: Acts ..., Volume 3

William McKenzie (of Edinburgh) - Isle of Man - 1860 - 276 pages
...which principles of loyalty I am no whit departed. " I scorn your proffers. I disdain your favour. 1 abhor your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this Island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. Take this your final answer ; and forbear...
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Curiosities of war and military studies

Thomas Carter - 1860 - 742 pages
...; I abhor your treasons ; and am so far from delivering this island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. " Take this final answer, and forbear any further solicitations ; for if you ' trouble me with any more messages...
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The history of England ... to the revolution in 1688, Volume 4

David Hume - 1864 - 602 pages
...majesty's service, from which principles of loyalty I am no whit departed. I scorn your prollVrs ; I disdain your favour ; I abhor your treason ; and...destruction. Take this for your final answer, and forbear any further solicitations ; for if you trouble me with any more messages of this nature, I will burn the...
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The great Stanley: or, James, viith earl of Derby, and his noble ..., Issue 146

Joseph George Cumming - 1867 - 314 pages
...and abhor your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this Island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. Take this for your final answer, and forbear any further solicitation, for if you trouble me with any more messages on this occasion, I will burn the...
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The Great Stanley: Or, James, VIIth Earl of Derby, and His Noble Countess ...

Joseph George Cumming - Isle of Man - 1867 - 320 pages
...which principle of loyalty I am in no whit departed. I scorn your proffers, disdain your favour, and abhor your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this Island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. Take this for your final answer, and...
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Private Devotions and Miscellanies of James, Seventh Earl of ..., Volume 66

James Stanley Earl of Derby - Isle of Man - 1843 - 262 pages
...from which principles of Loyalty I am no whit departed. I scorn your proffers, disdain your favour and abhor your treason, and am so far from delivering up this Island to your advantage, that I will keep it to the utmost of my power and your destruction. Take this for your 3 MS. Hist., p. 41....
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1868 - 986 pages
...which principle of loyalty I am in no whit separated. I scorn your proffers, disdain your favour, and abhor your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this Island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. Take this for your final answer, and...
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The Stanleys of Knowsley, a history

William Pollard - 1868 - 262 pages
...which principle of loyalty I am in no whit separated. " I scorn your proffers, disdain your favor, and abhor " your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this " Island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the " utmost of my power, to your destruction. Take this " for your final answer,...
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