Author of good for the blessings which he enjoys ; and if we see his foibles more clearly, it is because there is neither mystery nor vice to intercept our prospect into his bosom. It is at the bottom of the clear fountain that the least pebbles are distinctly... Periodical Criticism - Seite 101von Walter Scott - 1835Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Wilhelm Wachsmuth - 1839 - 950 Seiten
...executed. Utbethaupt f. «Räumet ®«fó. Cut. 6, 243 f. 3) Hallara 3, 8. Pepys (memoir») »on Carafon: he looked as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. 93gl. Lingard 12, 17. geben, ber (¿ootnant unb ode ¡Btfcfylujfe über (m $roctft M Aimigè, über... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 Seiten
...bank events to the writer's own reflection, ought not to he severely criticised. The language isalways distinct and intelligible, though sometimes amusingly...cheerful as any man could do in that condition" (vol. i, p. 78); and again in the following exquisitely limited tribute of sorrow for the death of a predecessor... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 Seiten
...profond perversite des autres !" Pepys, in his Diary, says of Harrison the traitor, at his execution : " In the course of being hanged, drawn, and quartered,...as cheerful as any man could do in that condition." Also, on the death of a predecessor in office, he writes this exquisitely limited tribute of sorrow.... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1876 - 486 Seiten
...Trials. Pepys says in his Diary, 13th October, 1660, of Harrison, whose execution he witnessed, that " he looked as cheerful as any man could do in that condition," P It is remarkable that Scrope had been so particularly favoured by the convention parliament, as to... | |
| Thomas Longueville - 1902 - 388 Seiten
...first blood shed in revenge," when Major-General Harrison, who had sat as one of the king's judges, was hanged, drawn and quartered. "He looked as cheerful as any man could do in that condition." Pepys was terribly disappointed at having been prevented by the crowd on the scaffold from seeing the... | |
| 1882 - 816 Seiten
...to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered, which was done there ; he looked as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts... | |
| J. R. Tanner - 1928 - 334 Seiten
...scaffold. They all died bravely; Pepys saw Colonel Harrison's execution, and wrote in his Diary1 that he looked ' ' as cheerful as any man could do in that condition ' ' . The Convention Parliament considered the question of the settlement of lands, but upon this an... | |
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