 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 688 pages
...devotion, he addressed the executioner, to whom he gave an angel of gold, saying, " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not. afraid to do thy office ; my neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving thy honesty." When he had laid his head... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 pages
...he addressed the executioner, to whom he gave an tionsangel of gold, saying, " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office ; my neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving thy honesty." When he had laid his head... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 538 pages
...devotion, he addressed the executioner, to whom he gave an angel of gold, saying, " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office ; my neck is very short: take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving thy honesty." When he had laid his head... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 302 pages
...me this day a greater benefit than ever any mortal man can be able t« give me. Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not away, for savin? thy honesty." After this he laid his... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...me this day a greater benefi than ever any mortal man can he able to give me. Pluck up thy spirit, man and be not afraid to do thy office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore that thou strike not away, for saving thy honesty." After this he laid his heac... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...down, and after his prayers said, turned to the executioner with a cheerful countenance, and said unto him : " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office ; my neck is very short, take heed, therefore, thou strike not awry for saving of thine... | |
 | 1856 - 864 pages
...me this day a greater benefit than ever any mortal man can be able to give me. Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not away, for saving thy honesty." After this he laid his... | |
 | John Foster - Essays - 1856 - 542 pages
...me this day a greater benefit, than ever any mortal man can be able to give me. Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office. My neck is very short ; take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving thy honesty.' When he laid his head on the... | |
 | Evening recreations, John Hampden Gurney - 1856 - 318 pages
...devotion, he addressed the executioner, to whom he gave an angel of gold, saying, " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office : my neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry, for saving thy honesty." When his head was laid... | |
 | 1865 - 786 pages
...knelt in devotion, he addressed his executioner with his usual pleasantry : " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry, for the sake of thine own honesty." One blow put... | |
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Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty. 
