 | William Godwin - Criminals - 1794 - 306 pages
...There is a myfterious fort of divinity annexed to the perfon of a true knight, that makes any fpecies of brute violence committed upon it indelible and...knocked down, cuffed, kicked, dragged along the floor ! facred heaven, the memory of fuch a treatment was intolerable IJ*to future luftration could ever... | |
 | William Godwin - Executions and executioners - 1816 - 320 pages
...been placed upon this occasion. There is a mysterious sort of divinity annexed to the person of a true knight, that makes any species of brute violence committed...what was perhaps still worse in the present case, the otfender having ceased to exist, the lustration which the laws of knight-errantry prescribe, was rendered... | |
 | William Godwin - English fiction - 1823 - 372 pages
...been placed upon this occasion. There is a mysterious sort of divmity an nexed to the person of a true knight, that makes any species of brute violence committed...sacred heaven, the memory of such a treatment was intolerable ! No future lustration could ever remove the staiu : and, what was perhaps still worse... | |
 | William Godwin - Criminals - 1831 - 262 pages
...been placed upon this occasion. There is a mysterious sort of divinity annexed to the person of a true knight, that makes any species of brute violence committed...ceased to exist, the lustration which the laws of knight-errantry prescribe was rendered impossible. " In some future period of human improvement, it... | |
 | Annette Brown Hopkins - English fiction - 1915 - 854 pages
...been placed upon this occasion. There is a mysterious sort of divinity annexed to the person of a true knight that makes any species of brute violence committed...sacred heaven, the memory of such a treatment was intolerable ! No future lustration could ever remove the stain: and, what was perhaps still worse in... | |
 | Annette Brown Hopkins - English fiction - 1915 - 824 pages
...cuffed, kicked, dragged along the floor ! sacred heaven, the memory of such a treatment was intolerable ! No future lustration could ever remove the stain :...ceased to exist, the lustration which the laws of knight errantry prescribe was rendered impossible. 'In some future period of human improvement it is... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1921 - 704 pages
...humiliating and dishonourable according to his idea, in which he had been placed upon this occasion. To be knocked down, cuffed, kicked, dragged along...memory of such a treatment was not to be endured." Next morning Mr. Tyrrel was found dead in the street, having been murdered at a short distance from... | |
 | William Godwin - England - 1998 - 388 pages
...been placed upon this occasion. There is a mysterious sort of divinity annexed to the person of a true knight, that makes any species of brute violence committed upon it indelible and immortal. To he knocked down, cuffed, kicked, dragged along the floor! sacred heaven, the memory of such a treatment... | |
 | English language - 2003 - 1282 pages
...sacrifice < lustrum lustrum) lustration (lustra'shan), n. 1 a ceremonial washing or purification : The offender having ceased to exist, the lustration which the laws of lusty fellow . . . had thrown him down (Daniel Defoe). SYN: robust, sturdy, vigorous, hearty. 2 Archaic,... | |
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He was too deeply pervaded with the idle and groundless romances of chi.valry ever to forget the situation, humiliating and dishonourable according to his ideas, in which he had been placed upon this occasion. There is a mysterious sort of divinity annexed... 