Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers and Murderers, of All Nations,Silas Andrus, 1854 - 288 páginas |
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Página 209 - King fell alaughing and said : " What! Dog eat dog ! Come, come, brother Turpin, if you don't know me, I know you, and should be glad of your company.
Página 52 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Página 242 - I conclude he will suffer, and wish him no ill, I don't care to have his idea, and am almost single in not having been to see him. Lord Mountford, at the head of half White's, went the first day : his aunt was crying over him : as soon as they were withdrawn, she said to him, knowing they were of White's, " My dear, what did the lords say to you ? have you ever been concerned with any of them...
Página 242 - I have been in town for a day or two, and heard no conversation but about M'Lean, a fashionable highwayman, who is just taken, and who robbed me * among others ; as Lord Eglinton, Sir Thomas Robinson of Vienna, Mrs. Talbot, &c. He took an odd booty from the Scotch Earl, a blunderbuss, which lies very formidably upon the justice's table. He was taken by selling a laced waistcoat to a pawnbroker,' who happened to carry it to the very man who had just sold the lace.
Página 258 - ... is altogether repugnant to. every part of my life ; that it is inconsistent with my condition of health about that time ; that no rational inference can be drawn that a person is dead who suddenly disappears ; that hermitages were the constant repositories of the bones of the recluse ; that the proofs of...
Página 55 - It is a great alexipharmick, and helps poisonous principles of rebellion, and those that use them ; it miraculously exalts and purifies the eye-sight, and makes traitors behold nothing but innocence in the blackest malefactors ; it is a mighty cordial for...
Página 33 - Go now boldly to the throne of grace, that ye may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Página 246 - ... where they were possessed of no less than three knight's fees, in the reign of Edward III. Their lands I find not whether by purchase or marriage, came into the hands of the present Lord Lexington. While the name existed in...
Página 42 - ... then took an egg, and putting it into the body of a pigeon, which I had already gutted with my knife, said to him, " Now, Sir, take notice, this egg is in the pigeon, the pigeon is to be put into a partridge, the partridge into a pheasant, the pheasant into a pullet, the pullet into a turkey, the turkey into a kid, the kid into a sheep, the sheep into a calf, the calf into a cow ; all these creatures are to be pulled, flead, and larded, except the cow, which is to have her hide on ; and as they...
Página 8 - ... born at Domfront were hanged at Rouen. I did this to keep my parishioners from hanging, encouraging them to die at home, the burial duties being already paid.' The Archbishop demanded of the parishioners, Whether this •was true or not? They answered, That too many of them came to that unlucky end at Rouen.