Bible that stripes shall be meted out according to faults, and if hanging is sufficient punishment for such wretches, it is too severe for ordinary mutineers. If I had them in my power today, and I knew that I were to die tomorrow, I would inflict the... On the Face of the Waters - Sivu 356tekijä(t) Flora Annie Webster Steel - 1903 - 432 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Sir John William Kaye - 1870 - 724 sivua
...our women, in the sense intended. VOL. II. 2 D 1S57. them in my power to-day, and knew that I were to die to-morrow, I would inflict the most excruciating tortures I could think of on them with a perfectly easy conscience. Our English nature appears to me to be always in extremes. A few years... | |
| Sir John William Kaye - 1874 - 728 sivua
...our women, in the sense intended. VOL. II. 2 D J857. them in my power to-day, and knew that I were to die to-morrow, I would inflict the most excruciating tortures I could think of on them with a perfectly easy conscience. Our English nature appears to me to be always in extremes. A few years... | |
| Edward John Thompson - 1926 - 158 sivua
...wretches, it is too severe for ordinary mutineers. If I had them in my power to-day, and knew that I were to die to-morrow, I would inflict the most excruciating tortures I could think of on them with a perfectly easy conscience." * * Kaye, Book VI, Chapter iv. * Quoted by Kaye, Book VI, Chapter i.... | |
| Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker - 1998 - 294 sivua
...hesitations, announcing in his sonorous voice: 'If I had them [the mutineers] in my power today . . . and knew I was to die tomorrow, I would inflict the...I could think of on them with an easy conscience' (p. 356). 4 In reply to a question on what course he would follow, the hero says: 'I would kill them,... | |
| Purnima Bose - 2003 - 300 sivua
...wretches, it is too severe for ordinary mutineers. If I had them in my power to-day, and knew that I were to die to-morrow I would inflict the most excruciating tortures I could think of on them with a perfectly easy conscience, (quoted in Dangerfield 232) The violence underwriting this articulation... | |
| Christopher Herbert - 2008 - 364 sivua
...alive, impalement, or burning of the murderers of the women and children at Delhi" (2:401). "If I could, I would inflict the most excruciating tortures I could think of on them with a perfectly easy conscience," declares Nicholson, the venerated hero-martyr of the reconquest of Delhi... | |
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