 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1759 - 486 pages
...aflectionate brother and all my friends.'* In preparing himfelf for the block, " I thank God " (added he) that I am no way afraid of death, nor *' am daunted with any terrors ; but do as chearfully " lay down my head at this time, as ever 1 did when " going to repofe." Sofaying, he fubmitted... | |
 | John Huddlestone Wynne - Ireland - 1773 - 396 pages
...peace and profperity of the land; and in this temper of mind he prepared himfelf to receive the fatal ftroke, and fpoke to thofe about him as follows :—"...my head at this time, as ever I did when going to repofe."—Having faid thus he laid his head on the block which the executioner fevered at one ftroke... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 430 pages
...Going to difrobe, and prepare himfelf for the block, " I thank God, " faid he, " that *' 1 am nowife afraid of death , nor am daunted ** with any terrors ; but do as chearfully lay " down my head at this time, as ever I did when " going to repofe ! " With one blow... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 542 pages
...for the block, he made this memorable declaration : " I thank God I am no way afraid of death, nor daunted «' with any terrors ; but do as cheerfully...my head " at this time, as ever I did when going to repose63!" He accordingly submitted to his doom ; and, at one blow, the executioner happily performed... | |
 | Biography - 1808 - 578 pages
...all." Going to disrobe, and prepare himself for the block, " I thank God," said he, " that I am no wise afraid of death, nor am daunted with any terrors,...my head, at this time, as ever I did when going to repose." At one blow a period was put to his existence. Thus perished, in the 49th year of his age,... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 604 pages
...Going to disrobe, and prepare himself for the block, " I thank God," said he, " that I am " nowise afraid of death, nor am daunted with any ** terrors...my head at " this time, as ever I did when going to repose !" With one blow was a period put to his life by the executioner e. THUS perished, in the 49th... | |
 | Artists - 1812 - 424 pages
...all." Going to disrobe, and prepare himself for the block, " I thank God," said he, " that I am nowise afraid of death, nor am daunted with any terrors,...my head, at this time, as ever I did when going to repose." At one blow a period was put to his existence. Thus perished in the 49th year of his age,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...all." Going to disrobe, and prepare himself for the block, " I thank God," said he, "that I am no wise afraid of death, nor am daunted with any terrors ;...my head at this time, as ever I did when going to repose." He then stretcked out his hands as a signal to the executioner; and at one blow his head was... | |
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that I am nowise afraid of death, nor am daunted with any terrors; but do as cheerfully lay down my head at this time as ever I did when going to repose! 
