 | David Hume - 1775 - 480 pages
...prifoners without the leaft enquiry into the merits of their caufe. As if to make fport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company fhould drink the king's health, or the queen's, or that of chief-juftice Jefferies. Obferving their feet to quiver in the agonies of... | |
 | World history - 1783 - 458 pages
...colonel Kirke; a brutal foldier, who had long ferved at Tangiers. As if f9 make fport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company fliould drink the king's health. Obferving their feet to (hake in the agonies of death, .he faid they... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 300 pages
...prifoners •without the leaft inquiry into the merits of their caufe. As if to make fport with death , he ordered a certain number to be executed , while he and his company fhould drink the king's health, or the queen's, or that of chief- juftice Jefferies. Obferving their feet to quiver in the agonies... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 550 pages
...prisoners, without the least inquiry into the merits of their cause. As if to make sport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company should drink the king's health, or the queen's, or that of chief justice Jefferies. Observing their... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 576 pages
...prisoners, without the least inquiry into the merits of their cause. As if to make sport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company should drink the King's health, or the Queen's, or that of Chief-justice Jefferies. Observing their... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...Bridgwater, a town that lies near Sedgemoor, he not only hanged nineteen prisoners without the least inquiry into the nature of their guilt ; but ordered...certain number to be executed while he and his company should drink the king's health ; and observing their feet to quiver in the agonies of death, he commanded... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...Bridgewater, a town that lies near Sedgeinoor, he not only lianged nineteen prisoners without the least inquiry into the nature of their guilt : but ordered...certain number to be executed while he and his company should drink the king's health ; and observing their feet to quiver in the agonies of death, he commanded... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - France - 1818 - 436 pages
...prisoners, without the least inquiry into the merits of their cause. As if to make sport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company should drink the King's health, or the Queen's, or that of Chief Justice Jefferies. Observing their... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 422 pages
...prisoners, without the least inquiry into the merits of their cause. As if to make sport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company should drink the king's health, or the queen's, or that of chief-justice Jefferies. Observing their... | |
 | John Foxe - Church history - 1831 - 608 pages
...prisoners, without the least inquiry into the merits of their cause. As if to make sport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company should drink the king's health, or the queen's, or that of Chief Justice Jeffreys. Observing their... | |
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As if to make sport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company should drink the King's health, or the Queen's, or that of Chief Justice Jefferies. 
