 | Samuel Bannister Harding, William Fletcher Harding - 1909 - 402 páginas
...carried out. Charles's last acts were full of bravery and dignity. " I fear not death," he said. " Death is not terrible to me. I bless my God I am prepared." The scaffold was erected before the King's palace of Whitehall, in London. The great crowd of people... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1910 - 540 páginas
...January and its gloomy memories. "Let me have a shirt on more than ordinary (said the King), by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake,...not terrible to me. I bless my God I am prepared." So said King Charles to the devoted Herbert on the fateful morning of January 30, 1649, and then set... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1910 - 548 páginas
...January and its gloomy memories. "Let me have a shirt on more than ordinary (said the King), by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake,...not terrible to me. I bless my God I am prepared." So said King Charles to the devoted Herbert on the fateful morning of January 30, 1649, and then set... | |
 | 1912 - 870 páginas
...would wear in Ms last journey to Whitehall. "Let me have a shirt on m» re than ordinary, by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake,...which some observers will Imagine proceeds from fear" ("Memoirs of the Two Last Years," edition 1813). So much Is natural and true. But then the account... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1912 - 870 páginas
...would wear in his last journey to Whitehall. ' Let me have a shirt on more than ordinary, by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake,...which some observers will imagine proceeds from fear ' (' Memoirs of the Two Last Years,' edition 1818). So much is natural and true. But then the account... | |
 | James Ross Kaye - 1920 - 788 páginas
...the people of England by which to try him ; that he was responsible to no human tribunal. He declared "I fear not death. Death is not terrible to me ; I bless my God I am prepared." He was convicted and sentenced to be executed. When, on January 30, 1649, he stepped upon the scaffold... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - 1922 - 674 páginas
...cloathes he would wear; 'Let me have a shirt " ' on more than ordinary,' said the king, ' by reason the season is so " 'sharp as probably may make me...'will imagine proceeds from fear. I would have no such imputa" 'tion. I fear not Death ! Death is not terrible to me. I bless my " 'God I am prepar'd.' "These,... | |
 | John Beresford - 1923 - 228 páginas
...appointing the clothes he would wear, he continued : " Let me have a Shirt on more than ordinary, by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake,...! Death is not terrible to me. I bless my God I am prepar'd." ** The story of Herbert's dream, as told by himself, will be found in a letter of his to... | |
 | Charles Holme, Guy Eglington, Peyton Boswell, William Bernard McCormick, Henry James Whigham - 1904 - 502 páginas
...morning of the fatal day his master said to him: "Let me have a shirt on more than ordinary, by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake,...which some observers will imagine proceeds from fear." The story of the relics completed, the author proceeds to give verbatim the narratives of several gentlemen... | |
 | Patricia Fumerton - 1993 - 300 páginas
...He instructed Herbert to make his beard "trim" and called for a shirt "more than ordinary, by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake,...proceeds from fear. I would have no such imputation." He put in his pocket a clean handkerchief and an orange stuck full of cloves.12 Around io AM the King's... | |
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Let me have a shirt on more than ordinary,' said the King, ' by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake, which some observers will imagine proceeds from fear. I would have no such imputation. I fear not Death ! Death is not terrible... 
