 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 138 pages
...she had written some sentences in Greek, Latin,, and English. The last one was, "If my fault deserved punishment, my youth at least and my imprudence were...of excuse. God and posterity will show me favour." When she had laid her head upon the block, she said, " Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." Thus,... | |
 | George Girling - 1882 - 202 pages
...she had written some sentences in Greek, Latin, and English. The last one was, "If my fault deserved punishment, my youth at least and my imprudence were...of excuse. God and posterity will show me favour." When she had laid her head upon the block, she said, "Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit." Thus... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1883 - 282 pages
...girl-like, she had ever made tho treasure-house of her sweetest thoughts — " If my fault deserved punishment, my youth at least and my imprudence were...of excuse. God and posterity will show me favour." The weary days she had spent alone had not been fruitless, for they had given her quiet to think calmly... | |
 | George Stokes - Religion - 1834 - 504 pages
...divine mercy has saved his soul." The third was in English; "If my fault deserved punishment, my youth and my imprudence were worthy of excuse; God and posterity will show me favour." About an hour after she was led to the scaffold within the Tower. She was attended by Feckenham, but... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1894 - 628 pages
...ilraggletails !" Wyatt, enclosed in like a wild beast in the toils, was made pribook : " If my fault deserved punishment, my youth at least and my imprudence were worthy of excuse. God and posteritv will shew me favour ;" an amply fulfilled prediction, spite of the calumnies of foes aud... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Great Britain - 1900 - 192 pages
...husband's body, God's mercy would pardon his soul ; whilst as regards herself, " If my fault deserved punishment, my youth, at least, and my imprudence,...of excuse. God and posterity will show me favour." As soon as Lord Guildford's decapitation was completed, it was arranged that the mournful * SirN. H.... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1900 - 182 pages
...husband's body, God's mercy would pardon his soul ; whilst as regards herself, " If my fault deserved punishment, my youth, at least, and my imprudence,...of excuse. God and posterity will show me favour." As soon as Lord Guildford's decapitation was completed, it was arranged that the mournful procession... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Great Britain - 1902 - 420 pages
...his body, God's mercy preserves his soul." In English, "If my fault deserved punishment, my youth and imprudence were worthy of excuse ; God and posterity will show me favour. " The using different languages probably was a relief in the awful tension of spirits in her condition.... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 690 pages
...three sentences in Greek, Latin, and English, of which the last is as follows : " If my fault deserved punishment, my youth, at least, and my imprudence...of excuse. God and posterity will show me favour. " The history of tyranny affords no other example of a female of seventeen put to death for acquiescence... | |
 | Richard Davey - Great Britain - 1909 - 438 pages
...exactly approved by the more extremely Protestant of the Reformers. The English — " If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least and my imprudence...of excuse. God and posterity will show me favour." l It was on this, the last Sunday evening of her unhappy life, that Jane wrote the well-known prayer,... | |
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If my fault deserved punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence, were worthy of excuse. God and posterity will show me favour. 
