 | Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1850 - 750 pages
...prevailed on Charles to put that strange postscript to his letter to the lords, in behalf of Strafford, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday ; " by which he manifestly surrendered him up, and gave cause to suspeet his own sincerity. Doubts... | |
 | Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1850 - 216 pages
...never for good. She it was who added the Postscript to the King's Letter on Stratford's businesse, That if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. This being my Diana's Birth-day, I did my endeavour to contrive for her some Amusement more than ordinary... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Great Britain - 1851 - 606 pages
...spoil things by an unacceptable manner." "But to the wonder of the whole world," continues Burnet, "the Queen prevailed with him to add that mean postscript, ' If he must die, it were charity to reprigve him till Saturday,' which was a very unhandsome giving up of the whole message. When it was... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...amounting to fatuity, which so often marked his conduct, he nullified his own request by that celebrated postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday ! :1 As might have been expected, the Earl was executed the next day, May 12th, 1641. The House of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...amounting to fatuity, which so often marked his conduct, he nullified his own request by that celebrated postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday !" As might have been expected, tho Earl was executed the next day, May 12th, 1641. The House of Commons,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...amounting to fatuity, which so often marked his conduct, he nullified his own request by that celebrated postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday !" As might have been expected, the Earl was executed the next day, May 12th, 1641. The House of Commons,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1854 - 330 pages
...husband to 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. This... | |
 | François Pierre G. Guizot - 1854 - 460 pages
...the King contented 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Great Britain - 1854 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1855 - 312 pages
...husband to 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, 32. This... | |
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If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 
