| Algernon Sidney - Monarchy - 1805 - 522 pages
...world, for I see you are not fit for this. Col. Sydney. My lord, feel my pulse, [holding out his hand] and see if I am disordered. I bless God, I never was in better temper than I am now. ....[Then the lieutenant of the Tmoer carried back his prisoner.'] SYDNEY, IN THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.... | |
| Agriculture - 1813 - 466 pages
...distempered state of mind, Sydney, free from all emotion, held out his hand firmly, and exclaimed, " My lord, feel my pulse, and see if I am disordered. I bless God, I never was in better temper than I am now." The inhuman Jefferies boasted to the king of the important service which he had rendered him, by such... | |
| English poetry - 1815 - 992 pages
...¡vate of mind, Sydney, free from all emotion, held out his hand firmly, and exclaimed, ' My Lord, feel my pulse, and see if I am disordered, I bless God, I never was in better tempor than I am now.' The inhuman Jefieries boasted to the king of the important service which he... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...world], for I see you are not fit for this.1 Colonel Sydney, (stretching forth his hand,) ' my lord, feel my pulse, and see if I am disordered. I bless God I never was in better temper than I am now.' The friends of Sydney still made great efforts to save him, and persuaded him, although he entertained... | |
| Samuel March Phillipps - Crime - 1826 - 436 pages
...the other world; for I see, you are not fit for this." " My Lord," (replied Sydney, stretching forth his arm,) " feel my pulse, and see if I am disordered. I bless God, I never was in better temper than 1 am now." — Thus closed this memorable trial. The conduct of the Chief Justice Jefferies, Remarks,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...are not fit for this.'" Col. Sidney. — My lord, feel my pulse, (holding out bu hand) and see if 1 am disordered ; I bless God I never was in better temper than 1 am now. Meantime the Lord Chief Justice lived no temperate life. He would unbend himself, to use... | |
| Richard (of Devizes) - Great Britain - 1838 - 140 pages
...when Sidney, in reply to th* insinuations of Judge Jeffreys, extending his arm, exclaims, " My Lord, feel my pulse, and see if I am disordered : I bless God thai I was never in a better temper than I am now." The Print contains portraits of many eminent men... | |
| Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...the other world, for I see you are not fit for this." " My lord," replied Sidney, stretching forth his arm," feel my pulse, and see if I am disordered....God I never was in better temper than I am now*." Sidney did not disdain to petition for mercy, but it was in the tone of one who only asked for justice,... | |
| Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1840 - 482 pages
...for this." In reply to this idle observation, Sidney stretched forth his hand and said, " My Lord, feel my pulse, and see if I am disordered. I bless God I never was in better temper than I am now." No writer of any reputation has attempted to justify the conduct of the government toward this illustrious... | |
| Emma Robinson - Great Britain - 1844 - 354 pages
...for this." "My lord, feel my pulse, and see if I am disordered," said Sydney, extending his hand. " I bless God, I never was in better temper than I am now." " I demand my sentence according to the statute !" exclaimed Mervyn, wildly. " I will not be hanged... | |
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