 | 1885 - 608 psl.
...pleading for mercy to Strafford, on condition even of perpetual imprisonment, and a postcript was added, ' If he must ,die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.' As the power of life or death lay in Charles's own hands, this was a miserable confession of weakness,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1887 - 504 psl.
...for mercy to Strafford, on condition even of perpetual imprisonment, and a postscript was added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." As the power of life or death lay in Charles's own hands, this was a miserable confession of weakness,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1890 - 454 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1892 - 454 psl.
...a king.' His cowardly, shuffling letter to the Lords, with its most mean and impotent conclusion, ' If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday,' marks the lowest ebb of Charles's career ; his courage — and his passive courage was great — never... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 512 psl.
...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1896 - 714 psl.
...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... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1897 - 666 psl.
...writ with the king's o-.vn hand, and sent to the house of lords by the prince of Wales : which Holies said, would have perhaps done as well, the king being...postscript, If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him to Saturday: which was a very unhandsome giving up of the whole message1. "When it was communicated... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 psl.
...intentions to you, I rest, Your unalterable and affectionate friend, CHARLES R, Whitehall, nth May, 1641. If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. Harleian Mss. 1769, art. 12. 78. The Attempted Arrest of the Five By JOHN r RUSHWORTH Members 1642)... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 642 psl.
...intentions to you, I rest Your unalterable and affectionate friend, Charles R. Whitehall, loth May, 1641. If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. (Journals of the Honse of Lords, May 11, 1641.) i58b. Parliament considers the King's Letter (The following... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 652 psl.
...intentions to you, I rest Your unalterable and affectionate friend, Charles R. Whitehall, loth May, 1641. If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. (Journals of the House of Lords, May n, 1641.) 158b. Parliament considers the King's Letter (The following... | |
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If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 
