 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1846 - 522 páginas
...intentions to you, I rest Your unalterable and affectionate friend, CHARLES R. Whitehall, 10th May, 1641. If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 2 1 This letter was delivered to the House by the prince in person. 2 The following extract from the... | |
 | John Lingard - 1847 - 450 páginas
...husband to send the letter, " which would have done as well," had she not persuaded him to add the postscript, " if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him " till Saturday ; " which, he observes, was a very unhandsome giving up of the whole message. Burnet's Own Times. 32.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1848 - 860 páginas
...intention to you, I rest, " Your unalterable and affectionate frieud, . , i ... .... " Снлвькз R. " Postscript. — If he must die. it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." . , ¿36 CIVIL. AND MILITARY TRANSACTIONS. 237 all the young princes, possibly be advised. Without... | |
 | 1848 - 456 páginas
...consideration of my intentions to you, I rest, Your unalterable and affectionate friend, CHARLES R. If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.* A more unkingly letter never flowed from a monarch's pen. Its form and the infant bearer rendered it,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1850 - 996 páginas
...unacceptable manner;) but to the wonder of the whole world, the queen prevailed with him to add that mean postscript, " if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday ; " which was a very unhandsome giving up of the whole message. When it was communicated to both houses,... | |
 | Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1850 - 216 páginas
...never for good. She it was who added the Postscript to the King's Letter on Stratford's businesse, That if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. This being my Diana's Birth-day, I did my endeavour to contrive for her some Amusement more than ordinary... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1850 - 750 páginas
...prevailed on Charles to put that strange postscript to his letter to the lords, in behalf of Strafford, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday ; " by which he manifestly surrendered him up, and gave cause to suspeet his own sincerity. Doubts... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 páginas
...amounting to fatuity, which so often marked his conduct, he nullified his own request by that celebrated postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday ! :1 As might have been expected, the Earl was executed the next day, May 12th, 1641. The House of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 páginas
...amounting to fatuity, which so often marked his conduct, he nullified his own request by that celebrated postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday !" As might have been expected, tho Earl was executed the next day, May 12th, 1641. The House of Commons,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 páginas
...amounting to fatuity, which so often marked his conduct, he nullified his own request by that celebrated postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday !" As might have been expected, the Earl was executed the next day, May 12th, 1641. The House of Commons,... | |
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If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 
