 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - Страниц: 498
...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 - Страниц: 480
...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 - Страниц: 486
...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 - Страниц: 480
...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 - Страниц: 944
...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 - Страниц: 508
...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 - Страниц: 508
...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 - Страниц: 332
...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 - Страниц: 430
...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 - Страниц: 488
...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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