 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...for it. God forgive all, and be merciful !' Evelyn, in his Diary, says— ' I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.' Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...for it. God forgive all, and be merciful !' Evelyn, in bis Diary, says — ' I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.' Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...for it. God forgive all, and be merciful !' Evelyn, in his Diary, says— ' I beheld on Tower-hill, the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.' Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1841 - 366 pages
...head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford ; whose crime coming under the cognisance of no human law, a new one was made, not to be a precedent,...rapidity with which the great movement advanced, after Stratford's fall, was in proportion to the magnitude of the impediment removed. It was now easy for... | |
 | Great Britain - 1842 - 360 pages
...head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford; whose crime coming under the cognisance of no human law, a new one was made, not to be a precedent,...as they returned through the City. CHAPTER IV. THE PARLIAHENTABY CRISIS. THE rapidity with which the great movement advanced, after Stratford's fall,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 pages
...to suffer death, are strong presumptions of great virtue." — NICHOLS, Calv. p. 289. EVELYN says, " I beheld on Tower Hill the fatal stroke which severed...destruction. To such exorbitancy were things arrived." THE mayor of Kilkenny, in an address delivered to Wentworth, 1636, eulogized him for " so many wholesome... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 714 pages
...are strong presumptions of great virtue." — NICHOLS, Calv. p. 289. says, " I beheld on Tower Hill fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...destruction. To such exorbitancy were things arrived." THE mayor of Kilkenny, in an address delivered to Wentworth, 1636, eulogized him for " so many wholesome... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1850 - 512 pages
...shoulders of the Earl of Strafford, whose crime coming under the cognizance of no human law, or statute, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction. Wth what reluctancy the King signed the execution, he has sufficiently expressed; to which he imputes... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1854 - 514 pages
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I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford, whose crime coming under the cognizance of no human law, or statute, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction. 
