 I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to...  The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct - Page 451de Alexander Sutherland - 1898 - 797 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 428 pages
...in the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood; and that it will... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1898 - 248 pages
...the truth. "It hath pleased God to bless our endeavours." "This hath been a marvellous great mercy." "I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbued their hands in so much innocent blood; and that it will tend... | |
 | Robert Forman Horton - 1899 - 228 pages
...possessed." In his account to Parliament of the storming he says, evidently with deep conviction : " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches who have imbued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend... | |
 | Thomas Stanford Baldock - 1899 - 584 pages
...board, the wretched prisoners were tied back to back and flung into the sea. Cromwell himself says, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will... | |
 | John Morley - 1900 - 620 pages
...grounds for them, and the grounds that he alleges are two. One is revenge, and the other is policy. "I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon those barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - 1900 - 590 pages
...punish the most barbarous massacre that ever the sun beheld." Of the slaughter at Drogheda he wrote : " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon those barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | 1900 - 994 pages
...grounds for them, and the grounds that he alleges are two. One is revenge and the other is policy. " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon those barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1900 - 368 pages
...honest hearts may give glory of this to God alone, to whom indeed the praise of this mercy belongs. ... I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1901 - 380 pages
...alone, to whom indeed the praise of this mercy belongs." " I am persuaded," he assured Lenthall, " that this is a righteous judgment of God upon those barbarous wretches who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 420 pages
...the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will... | |
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