 | 1805 - 596 pages
...Jefferies succeeded after some interval ; and showed the people, that the rigours of the hw might equul, if not exceed, the ravages of military tyranny. This...with a savage joy, as to a full harvest of death and deslmction. He began at Dorchester ; and thirty rebels being arraigned, he exhorted them, but in vain,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1823 - 408 pages
...the harvest of death. Hume. Hist, of England, ix. p. 401. (Scholey's edit.) The violent Jefferies — now set out with a savage joy, as to a full harvest of death and destruction. Ecclesiasticus, xli. 1. 0 Death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest... | |
 | Joseph Parkes - Courts - 1828 - 670 pages
...forms of justice so indecently outraged, as by this barbarian on the western circuit, who " setting out with a savage joy, as to a full harvest of death and destruction," strewed the country with the heads and limbs of two hundred and fifty-one " traitors." It is scarcely... | |
 | 1844 - 406 pages
...what has been fitly called his bloody campaign in the West. Hume says, he " wantoned in cruelty, and set out with a savage joy as to a full harvest of death and destruction." He opened his dreadful commission at Dorchester, and sentenced eighty men to death, and two hundred to... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 600 pages
...that the rigors of law might equal, if not exceed, the ravages of military tyranny. This man, wh<> wantoned in cruelty, had already given a specimen...presided ; and he now set out with a savage joy, as tc a full harvest of death and destruction : he began at Dorchester ; and thirty rebels being arraigned,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1859 - 824 pages
...England. The violent Jeffreys succeeded after some interval, and showed the people that the rigors of law might equal, if not exceed, the ravages of...as to a full harvest of death and destruction. He opened his court at Dorchester, Exeter, Taunton, and Wells, and, on the whole, liesid"s those who were... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1859 - 820 pages
...man, who wantoned in cruelty, had already given a specimen of his character in many trials where ho presided, and he now set out with a savage joy, as to a. full harvest of death and destruction. He opened his court at Dorchester, Exeter, Taunton, and Wells, and, on the whole, besides those who were... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 228 pages
...man, who wantoned in eruelty, had already given a specimen of his character in many trials where bo presided ; and he now set out with a savage joy, as to a full harvest of death and destruction, He lteipin at Dorehester; and thirty rebels being arraigned, he exhorted them, but in vain, to save him,... | |
 | David Hume - 1869 - 822 pages
...England. The violent Jeffreys succeeded after some interval, and showed the people that the rigors of law might equal, if not exceed, the ravages of...as to a full harvest of death and destruction. He opened his court at Dorchester, Exeter, Taunton, and Wells, and, on the whole, besides those who were... | |
 | English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...cruelty, had already given л specimen of his character in many trials where he presided ; ( 93 ) BARTER. and he now set out with a savage joy as to a full harvest of death and destruction." — Ышпе. " So much was he altered by a long succession of hardships that he passed entirely without... | |
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Jeffreys succeeded after some interval, and showed the people that the rigors of law might equal, if not exceed, the ravages of military tyranny. This man, who wantoned in cruelty, had already given a specimen of his character in many trials where he... 
