 | David Hume - 1775 - 480 pages
...hanged nineteen prifoners without the leaft enquiry into the merits of their caufe. As if to make fport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company fhould drink the king's health, or the queen's, or that of chief-juftice Jefferies. Obferving their... | |
 | World history - 1783 - 458 pages
...Bridgewater, by colonel Kirke; a brutal foldier, who had long ferved at Tangiers. As if f9 make fport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company fliould drink the king's health. Obferving their feet to (hake in the agonies of death, .he faid they... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 300 pages
...nineteen prifoners •without the leaft inquiry into the merits of their caufe. As if to make fport with death , he ordered a certain number to be executed , while he and his company fhould drink the king's health, or the queen's, or that of chief- juftice Jefferies. Obferving their... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1789 - 636 pages
...he not only hanged nineteen prifonerj without the lead inquiry into the nature of their guilt, but ordered a certain number to be executed while he and his company fhould drink the king's health j and observing their feet to quiver, in. the t »}• W ibid. See alfo... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 502 pages
...he not only hanged nineteen prisoners without the least inquiry into the nature of their guilt, but ordered a certain number to be executed while he and his company should drink the king's health ; and observing their feet to quiver, in the agonies of death, the commanded the drums to beat and... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 576 pages
...known in European and in free of Colo- countries. At his first entry into Bridgewatcr, he nel Kirke. hanged nineteen prisoners, without the least inquiry...drink the King's health, or the Queen's, or that of Chief-justice Jefferies. Observing their feet to quiver in the agonies of death, he cried that he would... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...he not only hanged nineteen prisoners without the least inquiry into the nature of their guilt ; but ordered a certain number to be executed while he and his company should drink the king's health ; and observing their feet to quiver in the agonies of death, he commanded the drums to beat and the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...not only lianged nineteen prisoners without the least inquiry into the nature of their guilt : but ordered a certain number to be executed while he and his company should drink the king's health ; and observing their feet to quiver in the agonies of death, he commanded the drums to beat and the... | |
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Kirke, a soldier of fortune, who had long served at Tangiers, and had contracted, from his intercourse with the Moors, an inhumanity less known in European and in free countries. At his first entry into Bridgewater, he hanged nineteen prisoners, without... 
