 | 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... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1860 - 472 pages
...hu-hiiml to K'tni 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 uiving up of the whole message. Burnet's Own Times. 32. Tub is told... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1861 - 852 pages
...They were these — "But if no less than his life can satisfy my people, I must say 'fiatjiutitia.' " Postscript. — If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." By this strange postscript Charles indeed manifestly surrendered Stnifford, and gave the lords cause... | |
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If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 
