 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1802 - 438 Seiten
...circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young, (under nineteen) and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse...it down : for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), " That she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 Seiten
...circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young, (under nineteen) and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse...it down : for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket,) " that she had lived in credit and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
 | Sir Robert Ker Porter - 1809 - 502 Seiten
...stores of subsistence: here was at least something to praise as well as pity in the poor unfortunate. She went to a linendraper's shop, took some coarse...cloak; the shopman saw her, and she laid it down: here was restitution; yet for this she was hanged. Her defence was, " that she had lived in credit,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 Seiten
...circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young, (under nineteen) and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse...it down : for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket),' that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a pressgang... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - 494 Seiten
...(under nineteen) and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen draper's shop, took some coarse Jinen off the counter, and slipped it under her cloak ;...it down: for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket) " that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1814 - 736 Seiten
...circumstance nottobe forgot ten, th at she was very young, (under 19) and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's. shop, took some coarse...it down : for this she was hanged. Her defence was, (I have the trial in my pocket) " That she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 Seiten
...circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young, (under nineteen) and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse...it down: for this she was hanged! Her defence was, (I have the trial in my pocket) ' That she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
 | 1820 - 562 Seiten
...linen-draper's shop, took some coarse ' linen off the counter, and slipped it under her cloak ; the sbop' man saw her, and she laid it down : for this she was hanged ! Her ' defence was, (I have the trial in my pocket,) " That she had lived ' in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
 | 1820 - 558 Seiten
...circumstance not to be forgotten, that ' she was very young, (under nineteen,) and most remarkably ' handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse ' linen off the counter, and slipped it tmder her cloak ; the shop' man saw her, and she laid it down : for this she was hanged ! Her * defence... | |
 | 1832 - 508 Seiten
...cireumstance not to he forgotten, that she was very young (under nineteen) and most remarkahly handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse...it down : for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket) " that she had lived in credit and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
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Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), ' that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang came and stole her husband from her ; but, since then... 
