 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 498 Seiten
...him forgiveness he granted the request, but told him, " you will never get credit by beheading me, my neck is so short." Then laying his head on the block,...Nothing was wanting to the glory of this end, except a cause, more worthy of such a sacrifice More was beheaded in the fiftythird year of his age. When the... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 480 Seiten
...credit by beheading me, my neck is so short." Then laying his head on the block, he bade the executionur stay till he put aside his beard; "for," said he,...treason." Nothing was wanting to the glory of this enJ, except a cause more worthy of such a sacrifice. More was beheaded in the fifty-third year of his... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 486 Seiten
...forgiveness, he granted the request, but told hhn, " you will never get credit by beheading me, my neck is so short." Then laying his head on the block, he bade the execmionur stay till he put aside his beard ; " for," said he, " it never committed treason." Nothing... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 480 Seiten
...forgiveness, he granted the request, but told him, " You will never " get credit by beheading me, my neck is so short." Then laying his head on the block,...however misguided, his constancy and integrity are not the less objects of our admiration. He was beheaded in the fifty-third year of his age. WHEN the execution... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 944 Seiten
...would have shewn in an ordinary affair. " Nothing is wanting (says Hume) to the glory of this end, but a better cause, more free from weakness and superstition....however misguided, his constancy and integrity are not the less objects of our admiration."—The following couplet, which is attributed to him, will serve... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 508 Seiten
...would have shewn in an ordinary affair. " Nothing is wanting (says Hume) to the glory of this end, but a better cause, more free from weakness and superstition....principles and sense of duty, however misguided, his con*/ stancy and integrity are not the less objects of ouradmiration." — The following couplet, which... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 508 Seiten
...Hume) to the glory of this end, but a better cause, more free from weakness and supersti-r tiori.- But as the man followed his principles and sense of...however misguided, his constancy and integrity are not the less objects of our admiration." — The following couplet, which is attributed to him, will serve... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 332 Seiten
...forgiveness, he granted the request, but told him, " You will never get " credit for beheading me, my neck is so short." Then laying his head on the block, he bid the executioner stay till he had put aside his beard, for, said he, that hat never coimr.ittcd... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 Seiten
...forgiveness, he granted the request, but told him, " You will never get credit by beheading me, my neck is so short." Then laying his head on the block, he bid the executioner stay till he had put aside his beard, for, said he, that has never committed treason.... | |
 | David Hume - 1818 - 488 Seiten
...forgiveness : he granted the request, but told him, " You will never get credit by " beheading me, my neck is so short." Then laying his head on the block,...however misguided, his constancy and integrity are «th July, not the less objects of our admiration. He was beheaded in the fifty-third year of his age.... | |
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Then laying his head on the block, he bade the executioner stay till he put aside his beard : " For," said he, 
