 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1866 - 584 pages
...yield it, I would not afterwards take it of their gift, but won it perforce, how many lives so ever it cost, putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword. Neither did I spare any malefactors unexecuted that came to my hands in any respect; using all those... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1866 - 626 pages
...yield it, I would not afterwards take it of their gift, but won it perforce, how many lives so ever it cost, putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword. Neither did I spare any malefactors unexecuted that came to my hands in any respect ; using all those... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1868 - 684 pages
...belong to, feed, accompany, or maintain, any outlaws or traitors ; and after my first summoning of a castle or fort, if they would not presently yield...putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword." It would have been strange, indeed, if Ormond, himself an Irishman, had exercised his command in Munster... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1868 - 642 pages
...presently yield it, I would not afterwards take it of their gift, but won it perforce, — how many fives soever it cost; putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword." It would have been strange, indeed, if Ormond, himself an Irishman, had exercised his command in Munster... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1870 - 650 pages
...of their service; neither yet that we were afraid of any number of them, our quarrel being so good. I slew all those from time to time that did belong...putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword. Neither did I spare any malefactors unexecuted that came to my hands in any respect; using all those... | |
 | William Steuart Trench - 1871 - 400 pages
...destroyed. — Fronde's History of England, vol. x. pp. 506, 507. 'I slew all those' (writes Gilbert) 'from time to time that did belong to, feed, accompany,...putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword.' 1 The English nation was shuddering over the atrocities of the Duke of Alva. The children in the nurseries... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1875 - 650 pages
...our quarrel being so good. I slew all those from time to time that did belong to, feed, uccompany, or maintain any outlaws or traitors ; and after my...putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword. Neither did I spare any malefactors unexecuted that came to my hands in any respect ; using all those... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1876 - 708 pages
...would not afterwards," he said, " take it of their gift, but won it perforce — how many lives so ever it cost; putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword." There was good reason why he should be more feared than any other man by the Irish, as Raleigh said... | |
 | Douglas Campbell - England - 1892 - 582 pages
...reporting officially to his superior officer as to his " manner of dealing" with the " rebels," he says : " After my first summoning of any castle or fort, if...cost, putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword."f For these exploits, Sir Henry Sidney, the representative of the queen, and himself ranked... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - United States - 1896 - 648 pages
...would not afterwards," he said, " take it of their gift, but won it perforce — how many lives so ever it cost; putting man, woman, and child of them to the sword." There was good reason why he should be more feared than any other man by the Irish, as Raleigh said... | |
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I slew all those from time to time that did belong to, feed, accompany, or maintain any outlaws or traitors; and after my first summoning of any castle or fort, if they would not presently yield it, I would not afterwards take it of their gift, but won... 
