The Patrician, Volume 4John Burke, Bernard Burke E. Churton, 1847 - Genealogy |
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... death was lately announced , though by no means among the first of French generals , played too important a part in the latter days of the great revolutionary war , to be excluded from a passing notice ; his mysterious conduct ...
... death was lately announced , though by no means among the first of French generals , played too important a part in the latter days of the great revolutionary war , to be excluded from a passing notice ; his mysterious conduct ...
Page 17
... death on other than political grounds , made a deep and lasting impression ; and , though we may quarrel with the verdict , we cannot but admire the stern rectitude of a government which , once persuaded of the sanity of the culprit ...
... death on other than political grounds , made a deep and lasting impression ; and , though we may quarrel with the verdict , we cannot but admire the stern rectitude of a government which , once persuaded of the sanity of the culprit ...
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... death should not pass , thus addressed the Court through the clerk . " My lords , I must acknowledge myself infinitely obliged for the fair and candid trial your lordships have indulged me with . I am extremely sorry that I have ...
... death should not pass , thus addressed the Court through the clerk . " My lords , I must acknowledge myself infinitely obliged for the fair and candid trial your lordships have indulged me with . I am extremely sorry that I have ...
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... death , and the passing through such crowds of people , were ten times worse than death itself ; but upon the sheriff's taking notice to his lordship , that he was glad to see that he supported himself so well , his lordship replied , I ...
... death , and the passing through such crowds of people , were ten times worse than death itself ; but upon the sheriff's taking notice to his lordship , that he was glad to see that he supported himself so well , his lordship replied , I ...
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... death , but was soon eased of all pain by the pressure of the execu- tioner . The time from his lordship's ascending upon the scaffold , until his execution , was about eight minutes ; during which his countenance did not change , nor ...
... death , but was soon eased of all pain by the pressure of the execu- tioner . The time from his lordship's ascending upon the scaffold , until his execution , was about eight minutes ; during which his countenance did not change , nor ...
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