 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 498 Seiten
...that he maintained in any ordinary occurrence. When he was mounting the scaffold, he said to one, " Friend, help me up, and when I come down again let me shift for myself." The executioner asking him forgiveness he granted the request, but told him, " you will never get credit... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 480 Seiten
...that he maintained in any ordinary occurrence. When he was mounting the scaffold, he said to one, " Friend, help me up, and " when I come down again, let me shift for my" self." The executioner asked him forgiveness, he granted the request, but told him, " You will... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 514 Seiten
...that he maintained in any ordinary occurrence. When he was mounting the scaffold, he said to one, " Friend, help me up, and when I come down again, let " me shift for myself." The executioner asked him forgiveness, he granted the request, but told him, " You will " never get... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1826 - 318 Seiten
...cheerfulness, and even his pleasantry. When he was mounting the scaffold, he said to a person near him, " Friend, help me up, and, when I come down again, let me shift for myself." The executioner having asked his forgiveness, he granted his request; but told him, " You will never... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 420 Seiten
...that he maintained in any ordinary occurrence. When he was mounting the scaffold, he said to one, " Friend, help me up, and when I come down again, let me shift for myself." The executioner asked him forgiveness, he granted the request, but told him, " You will never get credit... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 Seiten
...side, which latter most probably supported the steps — those steps, to ascend which, Sir Thomas More asked assistance of the Lieutenant of the Tower, saying,...and to the executioner, that " he would get little credit by beheading him, his neck was so short." There fell also his friend Fisher, Bishop of Rochester,... | |
 | 1829 - 436 Seiten
...Tower, saying, " Friend, * Abridged from the New Monthly and London Magaims.— No. CV. 369 help me np, and when I come down again let me shift for myself,"...and to the executioner, that " he would get little credit by beheading him, his neck was so short." There fell also his friend Fisher, Bishop of Rochester,... | |
 | John Bayley - 1830 - 664 Seiten
...thee himself." e As he ascended the scaffold, he begged one of the officers to help him up, adding, " And when I come down again let me shift for myself ! " ' And this scoffing manner accompanied him to the very moment of his death : after he had prayed, and was... | |
 | Grant Thorburn - 1834 - 202 Seiten
...having two shorter posts on the western side, which latter most probably supported the steps—those steps, to ascend which Sir Thomas Moore asked assistance...refusing to acknowledge that monster of crime, Henry, to be God'a vicegerent upon earth. There died Cromwell, Earl of Essex, without having had a trial; the... | |
 | Grant Thorburn - 1834 - 196 Seiten
...stood, near the south-western angle of the iron palisadoes enclosing the plantation. These scaffoldposts were fixtures in the ground, the planks that covered...and to the executioner, that " he would get little * Head the fate of Cromwell, Earl of Essex, in Hume. credit for beheading him, his neck was so short."... | |
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The executioner asked him forgiveness: he granted the request, but told him, " You will never get credit by beheading me, my neck is so short." Then laying his head on the block, he bade the executioner stay till he put aside his beard: "For," said he,... 
