 | Oscar Browning - Great Britain - 1884 - 154 pages
...and the people too.' He made a speech to those assembled, and said at the close, ' I thank God I am no more afraid of death, but as cheerfully put off...doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.' After the axe fell there was a shout of joy, but Charles never recovered the disgrace of having so... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 448 pages
...garment, " I am not afraid of death, nor daunted with any discouragement rising from my fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." The executioner then drew out a handkerchief to cover his eyes. "Thou shalt not bind my eyes," said... | |
 | England - Great Britain - 1884 - 222 pages
...Charles stood on the scaffold, he said to those about him, " I thank God I am not afraid of death, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." Levy, to collect ; the word is used only about taxes and soldiers. DeviceH, plans ; schemes. 39.—... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 458 pages
...garment, " I am not afraid of death, nor daunted with any discouragement rising from my fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." The executioner then drew out a handkerchief to cover his eyes. " Thou shalt not bind my eyes," said... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 448 pages
...garment, " I am not afraid of death, nor daunted with any discouragement rising from my fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed" The executioner then drew out a handkerchief to cover his eyes. " Thou shalt not bind my eyes," said... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 470 pages
...garment, " I am not afraid of death, nor daunted with any discouragement rising from my fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." The executioner then drew out a handkerchief to cover his eyes. " Thou shall not bind my eyes," said... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 282 pages
...boldly to meet his fate. ' I know how to look death in the face, and the people too. I thank God I am no more afraid of death, but as cheerfully put off...' at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.' The axe fell, and the spectators lifted up a shout of joy. Bonfires and bell-ringing followed. ' Many... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1885 - 580 pages
...nor daunted with any discouragement arising from any fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doubtlet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed. JAMES STUART, the California thief — I die reconciled ; my sentence is just. SWEDENBORG — What... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1889 - 654 pages
...velvet ; and that, on the scaffold, when he removed his doublet, he remarked, " I thank God I am not afraid of death ; but as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." The king dressed himself on the day of his execution with peculiar care, observing to Herbert, " This... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 540 pages
...executed. ' I thank God,' he said, as he stood on the scaffold, ' I am not afraid of death, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.' 2. Changes in the Law.— All this while, and for some weeks afterwards, Parliament was busy making... | |
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I thank God I am no more afraid of death, nor daunted with any discouragements arising from my fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed. 
