 | John Lingard - 1854 - 330 pàgines
...send the letter, " which would have done as well," bad she not persuaded him to add the postscript, " if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday;" which, he observes, was a very unhandsome giving up of the whole message. — Burnet's OwnTimee, 32.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 322 pàgines
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very... | |
 | François Pierre G. Guizot - 1854 - 460 pàgines
...himself with sending them, by the Prince of Wales, a letter, which ended with this postscript ; — " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." The House read the letter twice, and, without paying any attention to this cold request, fixed the... | |
 | John Lingard - 1855 - 312 pàgines
...send the letter, " which would have done as well," had she not persuaded him to add the postscript, " if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday;" which, he observes, was a very unhandsome giving up of the whole message . — Burnet' s Own Times,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1860 - 472 pàgines
...K'tni the letter, " which would have done as well/' had she not persuaded him to add the postscript, " if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him "till Saturday;" which, he observes, was a very unhandsome uiving up of the whole message. Burnet's Own Times. 32. Tub... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1861 - 852 pàgines
...— "But if no less than his life can satisfy my people, I must say 'fiatjiutitia.' " Postscript. — If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." By this strange postscript Charles indeed manifestly surrendered Stnifford, and gave the lords cause... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 pàgines
...be spared, " if it might be done without the discontent of his people ;" adding in a postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." Neither request was complied with; and the king said, " What I intended by my letter was with an if... | |
 | Alexander Dundas R. Cochrane-Wishart- Baillie (1st baron Lamington.) - 1865 - 342 pàgines
...consented to the sacrifice of the life he was pleading for; but what can we say of the postscript? ''If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." This letter, all written with the king's own hand, and delivered by the prince, was twice read to the... | |
 | Joseph Parkes - 1867 - 618 pàgines
...yielded as he did. But, when all his grief and intercession end in a pitiful ridiculous postscript, ' If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday,' the mind sickens with contempt of him. Well might the criminal so justly rewarded say, Put not youitrust... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 212 pàgines
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very... | |
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If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 
