 | Frederic Hervey - 1779 - 506 страници
...it, with one ftroke, from the body: an affiftant, in the like difguife, held it up to the fpectators, ftreaming with blood, and cried aloud, " This is the head of a traitor." Thus, by a fate unparallelled in the annals of princes, fell Charles Stuart, on the 3oth of January,.... | |
 | Frederic Hervey - 1779 - 548 страници
...ftroke, from the body : an afliftant, in the like difguife, held it up to the fpeftators, dreaming with blood, and cried aloud, " This is the head of a traitor." Thus, by a fate unparallelled in the annals of princes, fell Charles Stuart, on the joth of January,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 498 страници
...man In a vizor, while another, in a similar disguise, held up to the spectators, the head streaming with blood, and cried aloud, «' This is the head of a traitor !" It is impossible to describe the grief, indignation, and astonishment, which took place throughout the nation,... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 544 страници
...the office of executioner : Another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head streaming with blood, and cried aloud, This is the head of a traitor ! IT is impossible to describe the grief, indignation, and astonishment, which took place, not only among the... | |
 | John Rippingham - 1816 - 190 страници
...the office of executioner : another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head streaming with blood, and cried aloud, This is the head of a traitor. It is impossible to describe the grief, indignation, and astonishment, which took place, not only among the... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1817 - 276 страници
...his body, by an executioner who hid his face in a mask. Another, in the like disguise, held it up, and cried aloud, This is the head of a traitor. It is impossible to describe the grief, indignation, and astonishment which took place throughout the whole... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 страници
...office of executioner; and another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head, streaming with blood, and cried aloud, This is the head of a Traitor. Such wa« the tragical end of Charles the First, a man in private life adorned with every virtue that... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1820 - 446 страници
...other with a black beard, and that after the former severed the head, the other held it up, streaming with blood, and cried aloud, " this is the head of a traitor." — Friendship or fear influenced Deane to keep secret the extraordinary revelation which he had heard,... | |
 | Thomas Pruen - 1820 - 348 страници
...executioner; and another, in a like disguise, held up to the mournful spectators, the head streaming with blood, and cried aloud, " This is the head of a traitor." The King was only 49 years of age.—His body was buried on the 9th of February in St. George's Chapel,... | |
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At one blow was his head severed from his body. A man in a vizor performed the office of executioner: Another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head streaming with blood, and cried aloud. This is the head of a traitor! It... 
