Guy Fawkes; or, The gunpowder treason, 3. kötet

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29. oldal - My Lord, — Out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would adyise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
29. oldal - I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For, though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament ; and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
29. oldal - I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm : for the danger is past, as soon as you have burned the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it, unto whose holy protection I commend you*.
345. oldal - I might perhaps be accounted worthy of the honour of martyrdom, and might deservedly be glorified in the opinion of the church ; as it is, I acknowledge myself to have sinned in this respect, and deny not the justice of the sentence passed upon me.
347. oldal - Jesuits to hare been performed in his behalf. Father More relates, that on the lawn at Hendlip, where he and Oldcorne last set foot, " a new and hitherto unknown species of grass sprang up into the exact shape of an imperial crown, and remained for a long time without being trodden down by the feet of passengers, or eaten up by the cattle.
329. oldal - ... the assemblage, he at once surrendered himself to the assistant, and shared the fate of his friend. Grant was the next to follow. Undismayed as his predecessor, he looked round with a cheerful countenance, and said : " I am about to suffer the death of a traitor, and am content to die so. But I am satisfied that our project was so far from being sinful, that I rely entirely on my merits in bearing a part in it, as an abundant satisfaction and expiation for all the sins I have at other times of...
91. oldal - ... yet neither will the king exceed the usual punishment of law., nor invent any new torture or torment for them ; but is graciously pleased to afford them as •well an ordinary course of trial, as an ordinary punishment, much inferior to their offence*.
314. oldal - They were then questioned by the Lord Chief Justice whether they had anything to say why judgment of death should not be pronounced against them. "All I have to crave of your lordships...
132. oldal - I sent for you," she said, " because, as I was first drawn towards you by your sympathy in my sorrow, I think it right you should be the first to whom I should impart my joy. Yet I could not see you yesterday, I kept my room and set myself to school my feelings ; that is now done ; my mind is made up as to the course I shall pursue, and I am myself again.

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