| Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 566 pages
...spectators, telling them he came to die for the faith of Christ's holy catholic church, then meekly laid his head on the block, and it was severed from his body at a single blow; and thus perished this venerable, upright and pious prelate, a martyr to the rights... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1841 - 576 pages
...death of the Redeemerp. Having extricated himself from these theological toils, the 1645. archbishop laid his head on the block ; and it was severed from his body at one blowq. Those religious opinions, for which he suffered, contributed, no doubt, to the courage and constancy... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1848 - 552 pages
...the death of the Redeemer15. Having extricated himself from these theological toils, the archbishop laid his head on the block; and it was severed from his body at one blowq. Those religious opinions, for which he suffered, contributed, no doubt, to the courage and constancy... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1854 - 560 pages
...the death of the Redeemerp. Having extricated himself from these theological toils, the archbishop laid his head on the block ; and it was severed from his body at one blow q. Those religious opinions, for which he suffered, contributed, no doubt, to the courage and constancy... | |
| David Hume - 1864 - 602 pages
...the death of the Redeemer.1" Having extricated himself from these theological toils, the archbishop laid his head on the block, and it was severed from his body at one blow.q Those religious opinions, for which he suffered, contributed, no doubt, to the courage and constancy... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1864 - 684 pages
...the English. After a few passages of devotion with his confessor, he gave him his beads and crucifix, laid his head on the block, and it was severed from his body at two blows. It is remarkable that Gerard, the cavalier, whose interference led to the affray at tho... | |
| Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1876 - 1148 pages
...spectators, telling them he came to die for the faith of Christ's holy catholic church, then meekly laid his head on the block, and it was severed from his body at a single blow ; and thus perished this venerable, uprigh! , and pious prelate, a martyr to the rights... | |
| Alexander Hutton Drysdale - Great Britain - 1889 - 666 pages
...experience and exhortation, he knelt in prayer ; and having embraced his friends and blessed the multitude, he calmly laid his head on the block, and it was severed at one stroke. Christopher Love was not quite forty years of age ; and the whole circumstances of his... | |
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