| David Jardine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...the edge of it with his thumb, to see if it was keen ; and smiling, spake unto Mr. Sheriff, saying, " This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases." And then he kneeled down to prayer, and entreated the people to pray for him. After that, he called for... | |
| David Jardine - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...the edge of it with his thumb, to see if it was keen ; and smiling, spake unto Mr Sheriff, saying, ' This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases.' And then he kneeled down to prayer, and entreated the people to pray for him. After that, he called for... | |
| T P Grinsted - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...October 29th, 1618, in Old Palace Yard, Westminster. Feeling carefully the edge of the axe, he, smiling, said, " This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases." Raleigh went to his rest in the sixty-seventh year of his age, and St. Margaret's received his body.... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...the axe ar.d ran his fingers along its keen edge, show with what feelings he fronted death. Smiling, he said, " This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases." Two blows severed the neck of the old man, who had seen so many phases of human life, and had played... | |
| Jane Budge - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...clasped his hands and said—" Now I am going to God." He felt the edge of the axe and smiled, saying—" This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases." And so died the gifted, wonderful Raleigh. 11. In the latter part of James's reign, his great favourite... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...the axe and ran his fingers along its keen edge, show with what feelings he fronted death. Smiling, he said, " This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases." Two blows severed the neck of the old man, who had seen so many phases of human life, and had played... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...recantation. " This hand," said he, " hath offended, this unworthy right hand." When Raleigh died, he spoke as nobly as he had lived. Running his finger along...the scenes of his life, mutters as his last words, "Tete d'armfe."* Wolsey, whose tortuous church policy had raised him to be the chief man, under the... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...brought to the block, taking the axe in his hand, he ran his fingers over its keen edge, smiling as he said, " This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases." It is to be regretted that he did not use his ever-present wit, his poetic talent and his ready pen,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...brought to the block, taking the axe in his hand, he ran his fingers over its keen edge, smiling as he said, " This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases." It is to be regretted that he did not use his ever-present wit, his poetic talent and his ready pen,... | |
| Isa Craig- Knox - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 168
..."Now I am going to God." He prayed his last prayer, and forgave his bitterest enemies. Then feeling the edge of the axe, he said, "This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases." Thus died one of the most remarkable men of his time — a poet, an historian, a traveller, soldier,... | |
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