 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 trang
...for it. God forgive all, and be merciful !' Evelyn, in his Diary, says— ' I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.' Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | 1828 - 598 trang
...for it. God forgive all, and be merciful !' Evelyn, in bis Diary, says — ' I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.' Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 trang
...for it. God forgive all, and be merciful !' Evelyn, in his Diary, says— ' I beheld on Tower-hill, the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.' Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | 1841 - 366 trang
...head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford ; whose crime coming under the cognisance of no human law, a new one was made, not to be a precedent,...rapidity with which the great movement advanced, after Stratford's fall, was in proportion to the magnitude of the impediment removed. It was now easy for... | |
 | 1842 - 360 trang
...head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford; whose crime coming under the cognisance of no human law, a new one was made, not to be a precedent,...as they returned through the City. CHAPTER IV. THE PARLIAHENTABY CRISIS. THE rapidity with which the great movement advanced, after Stratford's fall,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 trang
...to suffer death, are strong presumptions of great virtue." — NICHOLS, Calv. p. 289. EVELYN says, " I beheld on Tower Hill the fatal stroke which severed...destruction. To such exorbitancy were things arrived." THE mayor of Kilkenny, in an address delivered to Wentworth, 1636, eulogized him for " so many wholesome... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 714 trang
...are strong presumptions of great virtue." — NICHOLS, Calv. p. 289. says, " I beheld on Tower Hill fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...destruction. To such exorbitancy were things arrived." THE mayor of Kilkenny, in an address delivered to Wentworth, 1636, eulogized him for " so many wholesome... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 512 trang
...shoulders of the Earl of Strafford, whose crime coming under the cognizance of no human law, or statute, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction. Wth what reluctancy the King signed the execution, he has sufficiently expressed; to which he imputes... | |
 | Nehemiah Wallington - 1869 - 380 trang
...shoulde1s of the Earl of Strafford, whose crime coming under the cognizance of no human law, or statute, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction. \Vith what reluctancy the King signed the execution, he has sufficiently expressed ; to which he imputes... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1878 - 540 trang
...shoulders of the Earl of Strafford, whose crime coming under the cognizance of no human law or statute, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction. With what reluctancy the King signed the execution, he has sufficiently expressed ; to which he imputes... | |
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I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford, whose crime coming under the cognizance of no human law, or statute, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction. 
