 | Frederic Hervey - Great Britain - 1779 - 548 pages
...ftroke, from the body : an afliftant, in the like difguife, held it up to the fpeftators, dreaming with blood, and cried aloud, " This is the head of a traitor." Thus, by a fate unparallelled in the annals of princes, fell Charles Stuart, on the joth of January,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 424 pages
...office of executioner: Another, in a like difguife, .held up to the fpeclators, the head, ftreaming with blood, and cried aloud, This is the head of a traitor ! ( ' IT is impoffible to defcribe the grief, indignation, and aftonifhment , which took place, not only among... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1803 - 498 pages
...his head was severed from hit body body by a man In a vizor, while another, in a similar disguise, held up to the spectators, the head streaming with...this melancholy occasion. 'Each reproached himself for being a tame spectator of such a catastrophe. The generous Fairfax, it seems, had determined to... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1804 - 486 pages
...blow his bead was severed from his body by a man in a vizor, while another, in a similar disguise, held up to the spectators, the head streaming with blood, and cried aloud, 11 This is the head of a traitor !" It is impossible to describe the grief, indignation, and astonishment,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 544 pages
...from his body. A man in a vizor performed the office of executioner : Another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head streaming with...grief, indignation, and astonishment, which took place, not only among the spectators, who were overwhelmed with a flood of sorrow, but throughout the whole... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 520 pages
...his body. A 1649 man in a visor performed the office of executioner : Another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head streaming with...blood, and cried aloud, This is the head of a traitor i IT is impossible to describe the grief, indignation, and astonishment, which took place, not only... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 544 pages
...from his body. A man in a vizor performed the office of executioner : Another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head streaming with...grief, indignation, and astonishment, which took place, not only among the spectators, who were overwhelmed with a flood of sorrow, but throughout the whole... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...from his body. A man in a vizor performed the office of executioner ; and another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head, streaming with blood, and cried aloud, This is the head o/a Traitor. Such was the tragical end ot Charles the- First, a man in private life adorued with every... | |
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from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown; where no disturbance can have place." At one blow was his head severed from his body. A man in a vizor performed the office of executioner: Another, in a like disguise, held up to the spectators the head streaming... 
