 | Mary Hays - Women - 1803 - 546 pages
...long life and peaceable reign to Elizabeth. She hoped for mercy, she declared, only through the death of Christ, at the foot of whose image she now willingly shed her blood. Having lifted up and kissed the crucifix- — ' As thy arms, O Jesus,* said she, addressing the image,... | |
 | Mary Hays - Women - 1803 - 542 pages
...long life and peaceable reign to Elizabeth; She hoped.for me*cy, she declared, only through the death of Christ, at the foot of whose image she now willingly shed her blood. Having lifted up and kissed the crucifix — « As thy arms, O Jesus,* said she, addressing the image,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1803 - 404 pages
...reign t» queen Elizabeth. She declared that she hoped tor mercy, only through the death ot CLnst, at the foot of whose image, she now willingly shed her blood. With calm and undaunted fortitude she laid her neck on the clock, and her head was severed from her... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - Scotland - 1805 - 452 pages
...blood ; and lifting up and kissing the crucifix, <he thus addressed it," As thy arm?, O Jesus, wire extended on the cross, so with the outstretched arms...prepared for the block, by taking off her veil and upper gr.rmentsj and one of the executioners rudely endeavouring to assist, she gently checked him, and said,... | |
 | John Stark - Biography - 1805 - 488 pages
...and kissing the crucifix, she htis addressed it, " As thy arms; Jesus, were extended on the cross, ?o with the outstretched arms of thy mercy receive me, and forgive my sins." She then ireparcd for the block, by takng off her veil and upper garnents; and one of the execuioners rudely... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - Scotland - 1806 - 318 pages
...declared that she hoped for mercy only through the death of Christ; and kissing the crucifix, she added, ' As thy arms, O, Jesus ! were extended on the cross,...block, by taking off her veil and upper garments. One of the executioners rudely endeavouring to assist, she gently checked him, and said with a smile,... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1808 - 256 pages
...and peaceable reign for Elizabeth. — She declared that she hoped for mercy only through the death of Christ, at the foot of whose image she now willingly...outstretched arms of thy mercy receive me, and forgive me my sins.'' She then prepared for the block, by taking off her veil and upper garments; and one of... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - 1810 - 424 pages
...long expected." She now prepared to die ; and, with this address submitted her head to the block ; " As thy arms, O Jesus ! were extended on the cross,...arms of thy mercy receive me, and forgive my sins." At the second stroke, the executioner cut off her head, which falling out of its attire, discovered... | |
 | William Robertson - Scotland - 1811 - 538 pages
...life and peaceable reign to Elizabeth. She declared that she hoped for mercy only through the death of Christ, at the foot of whose image she now willingly...outstretched arms of thy mercy receive me, and forgive '•' ray sins.". She then prepared for the block, by taking off her veil and upper garments ; and... | |
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... with an audible voice, and in the English tongue, recommended unto God the afflicted state of the church, and prayed for prosperity to her son, and for a long life and peaceable reign to Elizabeth. She declared that she hoped for mercy only through... 
