 | Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child : but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing- rather to die than live." She was then executed, amid the tears of the spectators. A variety... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of •witchcraft as any child : but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing rather to die than live." She was then executed, amid the tears of the spectators. A variety... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child ; but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the..."being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." " Say you, therefore, Egeria, that the laws whicli led to such effects were either wise or requisite... | |
 | John Galt - Scotland - 1824 - 474 pages
...malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, andseeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever...being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." " Say you, therefore, Egeria, that the laws which led to such effects were either wise or requisite... | |
 | Law - 1825 - 318 pages
...the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child ; but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing rather to die than live." This unhappy creature is said to have been executed amid the tears... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Witchcraft - 1831 - 316 pages
...to the God of Heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child, but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the...being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live. Sir George Mackenzie says that he went to examine some women who had confessed, and that one... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - History - 1831 - 302 pages
...to the God of Heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child, but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the...being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live.' Sir George Mackenzie says that he went to examine some women who had confessed, and that one... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Scotland - 1833 - 496 pages
...under the name of a witch, — disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of ray coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." — And so died. It was remarkable that the number of supposed witches seemed to increase in... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1836 - 432 pages
...the God of Heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child ; but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the...being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." — And so died.1 It was remarkable that the number of supposed witches seemed to increase in... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 356 pages
...to the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child; but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing'rather to die than live ;' — and so died. Which lamentable story, as it did then astonish... | |
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I take it wholly upon myself — my blood be upon my own head ; and as I must make answer to the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child. But being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a... 
