 | John Stoughton - London (England) - 1864 - 302 pages
...Strafford's life might be spared, " if it might be done without the discontent of his people ;" adding in a postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." Neither request was complied with; and the king said, " What I intended by my letter was with an if... | |
 | Alexander Dundas R. Cochrane-Wishart- Baillie (1st baron Lamington.) - 1865 - 342 pages
...king almost consented to the sacrifice of the life he was pleading for; but what can we say of the postscript? ''If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." This letter, all written with the king's own hand, and delivered by the prince, was twice read to the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...justilia." In a postscript. said to be added at the suggestion of the queen, he added the fatal words, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday ; " words which seemed to imply that, though he asked, he really did not hope to save him. Nothing,... | |
 | Joseph Parkes - 1867 - 602 pages
...might have yielded as he did. But, when all his grief and intercession end in a pitiful ridiculous postscript, ' If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday,' the mind sickens with contempt of him. Well might the criminal so justly rewarded say, Put not your... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 212 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... | |
 | William Smith - Great Britain - 1873 - 396 pages
...pleading for the Earl's life and proposing his perpetual imprisonment. But even the request in the postscript — " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday " — was rejected, and Strafford was led to the scaffold on Tower Hill next morning. Passing under... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - Great Britain - 1874 - 404 pages
...to commute the punishment of death into that of perpetual imprisonment; the letter, however, had a postscript: 'If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.' But the discovery of the plot for Strafford's release had made longer imprisonment impossible, and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1874 - 556 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... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 928 pages
...were these — " But if no less than his life can satisfy my people, I must say ' fiat justitia.' " Postscript. — If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." By this strange postscript Charles indeed manifestly surrendered Strafford, and gave the lords cause... | |
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If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 
