| John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 trang
...with the Reverend Prelate, John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal and Chancellor of England, there happened to be at table one of the English lawyers, who took occasion to run out into a high commendation of the severe execution of justice upon thieves, who (as he said) were then... | |
| Plutarch - 1890 - 298 trang
...wisdom, which is / ) not soon lost when it is purchased so dear. One day when I was dining with him there happened to be at table one of the English lawyers,...who, as he said, were then hanged so fast, that there <T were sometimes twenty on one gibbet ; and upon that he said lie could not wonder enough how it came... | |
| 1901 - 352 trang
...of wisdom, which is not soon lost when it is purchased so dear. One day when I was dining with him there happened to be at table one of the English lawyers,...that there were sometimes twenty on one gibbet; and v upon that he said he could not wonder enough how it came to pass, that since so few escaped, there... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 2005 - 108 trang
...occasion to run out in high commendation of the severe execution of justice upon thieves, " who,' 5 as he said, "were then hanged so fast that there were sometimes twenty on one gibbet 1" .and upon that he said, "he could not wonder enough how it came to pass, that since so few escaped... | |
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