 | George Wishart - 1819 - 562 pages
...fixed upon the top of the prison, in the view of the present and succeeding ages, than if they had decreed a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or that his picture should be hung in the king's bed-chamber. He thanked them for taking so effectual... | |
 | 1819 - 556 pages
...fixed upon the top of the prison, in the view of the present and succeeding ages, than if they had decreed a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or that his picture should be hung in the king's bed-chamber. He thanked them for taking so effectual... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 706 pages
...remanded to prison, to await his fate, which was to take place next day at three in the afternoon.27 He had no sooner been replaced in the jail, than the...afford a piece to every city in Christendom, that Ins unshaken affection and fidelity to the cause of his sovereign might thereby he testified as extensively... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 432 pages
...more honoured in having his head set on the prison, for the cause in which he died, than be -.von Id have been had they decreed a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or in having his picture in the King's bedchamber. As to the distribution of his limbs, he said he wished... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 622 pages
...decreed him, — that he was prouder to have his head fixed upon the top of the prison, than if they had decreed a golden statue to be erected to him. in the market-place, or ordered his portrait to be placed in the king's bedchamber, — that so far from grieving for the mutilation... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 434 pages
...was more honoured in having his head set on the prison, for the cause in which he died, than he would have been had they decreed a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or in having his picture in the King's bedchamber. As to the distribution of his limbs, he said he wished... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1849 - 304 pages
...adding, " that he was prouder to have his head placed upon the top of the prison, than if they had decreed a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or that his picture should be hung in the King's bed-chamber." He said, " he thanked them for their care... | |
 | François Guizot - 1854 - 426 pages
...upon the top of the prison, in the view of the present and succeeding ages, than if they had ordered a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or that his picture should be hung in the King's bedchamber. He thanked them for taking so effectual a... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1854 - 518 pages
...upon the top of the prison, in the view of the present and succeeding ages, than if they had ordered a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or that his picture should be hung in the King's bedchamberHe thanked them for taking so effectual a method... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1861 - 316 pages
...was more honored in having his head set on the prison for the cause in which he died, than he would have been had they decreed a golden statue to be erected to him in the marketplace, or in having his picture in the King's bedchamber. As to the distribution of his limbs, he said he wished... | |
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he was prouder to have his head fixed upon the top of the prison, in the view of the present and succeeding ages, than if they had decreed a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or that his picture should be hung in the king's bed-chamber. 
