 | Emma Forbes Cary - 1893 - 294 sivua
...ended, he cheerfully rose up ; and, the executioner asking his forgiveness, he kissed him, saying, " Thou wilt do me this day a greater benefit than ever any mortal man can be able to give me." So, with great alacrity and spiritual joy, he received the fatal stroke. His body was buried in the... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1900 - 384 sivua
...Then kneeling down he said the Miserere. When the executioner asked his forgiveness he kissed him. "Thou wilt do me this day a greater benefit than ever any mortal man can be able to do me. Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short : take... | |
 | Bede Camm - 1904 - 624 sivua
...being ended he cheerfully rose up, and the executioner asking him forgiveness, he kissed him, saying, 'Thou wilt do me this day a greater benefit than ever...any mortal man can be able to give me ; pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office ; my neck is very short, take heed therefore that thou... | |
 | Thomas More - 1904 - 350 sivua
...accordance with custom the executioner begged his forgiveness. More turned to him, kissed him and said, ' Thou wilt do me this day a greater benefit than ever any mortal man can be able to do me ' ; and then, as he probably saw that there was some danger of the man's nerve failing him, added,... | |
 | Henri Bremond - 1920 - 232 sivua
...being ended, he cheerfully rose up, and the executioner asking his forgiveness, he kissed him, saying: 'Thou wilt do me this day a greater benefit than ever...any mortal man can be able to give me ; pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office ; my neck is very short ; take heed therefore that... | |
 | Paul W. Kahn - 2009 - 333 sivua
...Consider Sir Thomas More, who was reputed to have said to his executioner, kissing him, u [t]hou wilt give me this day a greater benefit than ever any mortal man can be able to give me." P. Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More 406 (1999); see also, R. Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr... | |
 | Elizabeth Massie - 2008 - 323 sivua
...hands. "I ask for your pardon and blessing," he whispered. More kissed the man and said, "You will give me this day a greater benefit than ever any mortal man can be able to give me. Pluck up your spirits and be not afraid to do your office." The headsman stood, and More knelt before the block.... | |
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Thou wilt do me this day a greater benefit than ever any mortal man can be able to give me ; pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office ; my neck is very short, take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving thy honesty. 
