 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1908 - 830 pages
...turned to the executioner, and with a cheerful countenance spake unto him : " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, thou shoot not awry, for saving thine honesty." The criticism So passed... | |
 | James Gairdner - Lollards - 1908 - 602 pages
...his prayers, turned to the executioner and said with cheerful countenance : " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed, therefore, thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." But before the fatal... | |
 | Robert Forman Horton - Christianity - 1909 - 406 pages
...by their dauntless words under the gleam of the axe. Thus Sir Thomas More : " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short ; take heed therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty." Bishop Fisher said... | |
 | Niccolò Machiavelli - Church and state - 1910 - 416 pages
...turned to the executioner, and with a cheerful countenance spake unto him. " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office, my neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou shoot not awry for saving thine honesty." So passed Sir Thomas More... | |
 | Theosophy - 1916 - 722 pages
...turned to the executioner with a cheerful countenance, and said unto him : " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office, my neck is very short, take heed therefore, thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty." Verily, here is evidence... | |
 | Francis Borgia Steck - Reformation - 1920 - 364 pages
...begged his forgiveness; whereupon the martyr kissed him tenderly and said, ' ' Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office : my neck is very short, take heed, therefore, thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty. ' '" Then having blindfolded... | |
 | Saint Thomas More, Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1924 - 224 pages
...to the executioner, and with a cheerful countenance spake thus unto him : ' Pluck up thy spirits, 10 man, and be not afraid to do thine office : my neck is very short, take heed, therefore, thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty.' So passed Sir Thomas... | |
 | Karl Kautsky - Utopias in literature - 1927 - 266 pages
...executioner," relates Roper, "and with a cheerful countenance spake thus unto him : ' Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short; take heed thou strike not awry.' " Thus died the first of the great communist Utopians. PART... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - Biography - 1928 - 1452 pages
...said, turned to the executioner with a cheerful countenance, and said unto him: " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office: my neck is very short; take heed, therefore, thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty." So passed Sir Thomas... | |
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Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty. 
