| Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1910 - 358 lehte
...death, nor daunted with any discouragements arising from any fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." Descartes, in 1614, produced his " Principia Philosophise." 1692 was William Penn's year of misfortune.... | |
| Charles Edward Wade - 1912 - 418 lehte
...death, nor daunted with any discouragements arising from any fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.' " Then he put off his doublet and wound up his hair with his hands and put on a white cap. " Then he called... | |
| Estelle Ross - 1915 - 222 lehte
...in his bearing. "I thank God I am no more afraid of death," he said, "but as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." The surging populace roared their delight at his execution. "His head is off! His head is off!" they... | |
| John Morley - 1921 - 472 lehte
...the Tower gate to the block ; " 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 my bed." " His mishaps," said his confederate, Laud, " were that he groaned under the public envy of... | |
| John Morley - 1921 - 482 lehte
...the Tower gate to the block ; "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 my bed." " His mishaps," said his confederate, Laud, " were that he groaned under the public envy of... | |
| Kenneth Norman Bell, Gladys M. Morgan - 1925 - 376 lehte
...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... | |
| George Borrow, Edward Hale Bierstadt - 1928 - 542 lehte
...knows neither good nor evil." While he was undressing, he said, "I as cheerfully put off my clothes at this time, as ever I did when I went to bed;" and putting on a white cap, he tucked up his hair under it; then having prayed again, and submitted... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 878 lehte
...death, nor daunted with any discouragements arising from arty fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.' Then he put off his doublet, and wound up his hair with his hands, and put on a white cap. Then he called,... | |
| Patsy Griffin - 1995 - 228 lehte
...Strafford's famous and often-repeated last words from his own scaffold: "I do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." Since the responsibility for Stafford's death lay so heavily on Charles I's conscience that he thought... | |
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