| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Queens - 1834 - 526 pages
...; she was sentenced by the verdict to be beheaded or burned, according to the king's pleasure. " O Father," said she, lifting up her eyes when this dreadful...the judges, she pathetically declared her innocence. In her last message to the king, she thanked him for having advanced her from private life to the throne,... | |
| Grant Thorburn - Great Britain - 1834 - 198 pages
...Boleyn to heaven on her being sentenced to die, is one of the most beautiful on record. " O, Father ! O, Creator ! thou who art the way, the truth, and...thou knowest that I have not deserved this death." While I held in one hand the axe which severed the head from her body ; and in the other the following... | |
| Grant Thorburn - Great Britain - 1834 - 196 pages
...Boleyn to heaven on her being sentenced to die, is one of the most beautiful on record. " O, Father ! O, Creator ! thou who art the way, the truth, and...thou knowest that I have not deserved this death." While I held in one hand the axe which severed the head from her body ; and in the other the following... | |
| Grant Thorburn - England - 1835 - 242 pages
...Boleyn to heaven on her being sentenced to die, is one of the most beautiful on record. " O, Father! (), Creator! thou who art the way, the truth, and the...thou knowest that I have not deserved this death." While I held in one hand the axe which severed the head from her body; and in the other the following... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - Great Britain - 1837 - 486 pages
...her hands to heaven, and solemnly exclaimed, " Oh, Father and Creator ! Oh, Thou who art the way, and the truth, and the life ! Thou knowest that I have not deserved this death."* She then turned to her judges, and, in an address which, even in the garbled and imperfect state in... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1839 - 602 pages
...beheaded, or burnt, she was not terrified, but lifted up her hands to God, and said, " O Father ! 0 Creator ! Thou, who art the way, the truth, and the...thou knowest that I have not deserved this death." And turning herself to her judges (her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, being the lord -high-steward) she... | |
| Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...pleasure. When she heard this sentence, she raised her hands, and cried, " O Father and Creator! O thou who art the way, the truth and the life! thou knowest that I have not deserved this death." She then addressed her judges, and with dignity and calmness solemnly protested her innocence t- Rochfort... | |
| 1839 - 92 pages
...with a serene countenance, and lifting up her hands and eyes to Heaven she exclaimed,—"0 I Father ! O, Creator! Thou who art the way, the truth, and the life! Thou knowest I have not deserved this death." On the 19th of May, a mournful procession passed over the Tower Green—Anne... | |
| Jeremy Collier - Great Britain - 1840 - 484 pages
...sentence was pronounced she was not terrified, but, lifting up her hands to heaven, said, ' O Father ! O Creator ! thou who art the way, the truth, and the life, thou knowest that I have not deserved this fate !' and then, turning to the judges, made the most pathetic declarations of her innocence. " Henry,... | |
| Jeremy Collier - Great Britain - 1840 - 476 pages
...sentence was pronounced she was not terrified, but, lifting up her hands to heaven, said, ' O Father ! O Creator ! thou who art the way, the truth, and the life, thou knowcst that I have not deserved this fate !' and then, turning to the judges, made the most pathctic... | |
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