| Bryan Edwards - Botany - 1793 - 520 pages
...utmoft firmnefs and compofure ; after which, one of his arms by foraie means getting loofe, he fnatched a brand from, the fire that was consuming him, and flung it in. the face- of the executioner. The two that were hung up alive were indulged, at their own requefl,... | |
| Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 426 pages
...to sit on the ground, and his body being chained to an iron stake, the fire was applied to his feet. He uttered not a groan, and saw his legs reduced to...from the fire that was consuming him, and flung it in the face of the executioner. The two that were hung up alive were indulged at their own request,... | |
| Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 428 pages
...to sit on the ground, and his. body being chained to an iron stake, the fire wasapplied to his feet. He uttered not a groan, and saw his legs reduced to...snatched a brand from the fire that was consuming himr and flung }t in the face of the executioner. The two that were hung lap alive were indulged at... | |
| James Stephen - France - 1807 - 158 pages
...to sit on the ground, and his body being chained to an iron stake, the fire was applied to his feet. He uttered not a groan, and saw his legs reduced to...from the fire that was consuming him, and flung it in the face of the executioner. "The two that were hung op alive, were indulged, at their own request,... | |
| Robert Renny - Enslaved persons - 1807 - 366 pages
...lower extremities reduced to ashes; after which, one of his arms having been accidentally loosened, he snatched a brand from the fire that was consuming him, and flung it in the face of his executioner. K2 The other two unhappy wretches were suspended on a gibbet, erected... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1815 - 602 pages
...sit on the ground, and his body being chained unto an iron stake, the fiie was applied unto his teet. He uttered not a groan, and saw his legs reduced to...and composure; after which one of his arms by some mean» gettin» loose, he snatched a brand from the fire that was consuming him, and flung it in the... | |
| Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 636 pages
...to sit on the ground, and his body being chained to an iron stake, the fire was applied to his feet. He uttered not a groan, and saw his legs reduced to...from the fire that was consuming him, and flung it in the face of the executioner. The two that were hung up alive were indulged, at their own request,... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 392 pages
...burnt, was chained to an iron stake, in a sitting posture, and the fire being applied to his feet, he saw his legs reduced to ashes, with the utmost firmness and composure, and without uttering a single groan. Of the two that were suspended alive, one expired on the eighth,... | |
| English literature - 1824 - 436 pages
...sit on the ground, and his body being chained to an iron stake, the fire was applied unto his feet. He uttered not a groan, and saw his legs reduced to...from the fire that was consuming him, and flung it in the face of the executioner!, The two that were hung up alive: were indulged, at their request,... | |
| James Stephen - Antislavery movements - 1824 - 568 pages
...sit on the ground; and his " body being chained to an iron stake, the fire was applied to his feet. " He uttered not a groan, and saw his legs reduced to...loose, he snatched a brand, from the fire that was consum" ing him, and flung it in the face of the executioner. X 3 humanity of his Majesty's ministers... | |
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