| Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 páginas
...Strafford's life might be spared, " if it might be done without the discontent of his people ;" adding in a postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." Neither request was complied with; and the king said, "What I intended by my letter was with an if... | |
| 1878 - 822 páginas
...the fatal words, 'If no less than his life can satisfy my people, I must say, Fiat jiutitia,' and the postscript, ' If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.' Such were the words with which Charles sealed the fate of his great minister. We cannot wonder at the... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 858 páginas
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 894 páginas
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very... | |
| 1885 - 608 páginas
...pleading for mercy to Strafford, on condition even of perpetual imprisonment, and a postcript was added, ' If he must ,die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.' As the power of life or death lay in Charles's own hands, this was a miserable confession of weakness,... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1887 - 504 páginas
...for mercy to Strafford, on condition even of perpetual imprisonment, and a postscript was added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." As the power of life or death lay in Charles's own hands, this was a miserable confession of weakness,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1890 - 454 páginas
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very... | |
| 1892 - 454 páginas
...a king.' His cowardly, shuffling letter to the Lords, with its most mean and impotent conclusion, ' If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday,' marks the lowest ebb of Charles's career ; his courage — and his passive courage was great — never... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 512 páginas
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1896 - 714 páginas
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very... | |
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