Memoirs of Jeanne D'Arc, Surnamed La Pucelle D'Orleans: With the History of Her Times, Band 2

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William Henry Ireland
R. Triphook, 1824
 

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Seite cxliv - "Of the love or hate God may have for the English, or of what He will do for their souls, I know nothing ; but I know quite well that they will be put out of France, except those who shall die there, and that God will send victory to the French against the English.
Seite xcviii - ... all the world hir execrable abhominations, and well iustifie the iudgement she had, and the execution she was put to for the same. A thing yet (God wot) verie smallie shadowed and lesse holpen by the verie trauell of the Dolphin, whose dignitie abroad [was] foulie spotted in this point, that, contrarie to the holie degree of a right christen prince (as he called himselfe), for maintenance of his quarels in warre would not reuerence to prophane his sacred estate, as dealing in diuelish practises...
Seite clxvi - Truly if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not tell you anything more: and if I did say anything, I should afterwards declare that you had compelled me to say it by force.
Seite xcvii - ... place at Rone, in the selfe same steed where now saint Michaels church stands: hir ashes afterward without the towne wals shaken into the wind.
Seite lxxxviii - And thenne she sayde that she was with chylde, wherby she was respyted a whyle. But in conclusyon it was founde that she was not with chylde. And then she was brente in Roan. And the other captaynes were putt to raunsonne.
Seite xcviii - Annes, that in this behalfe came and gave hir commandements from God hir maker, as she kept hir father's lambs in the fields...
Seite cxxxiv - Joan made the following predictions on the 1st of March 1430, in the presence of fiftynine witnesses, whose names are given faithfully by M. le Brun de Charmettes : ' Before seven years are past, the English will abandon a larger prize than they have done before Orleans, and will lose every thing in France. " ' They will experience the severest loss they have ever felt in France ; — and this will be by a great victory which God will bestow upon the French.
Seite cclx - The painter seems to have drawn a flattering' resemblance of her, and to have given his heroine imaginary charms. Her face, though long, is of exceeding beauty, heightened by an expression of intelligence and grandeur rarely united. Her hair falls loosely down her back, and she...
Seite cxxxiv - Avant qu'il soit sept ans, les « Anglais abandonneront un plus grand gage qu'ils n'ont fait devant Or« léans, et ils perdront tout en France.

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