 What would ye, my friends ? Why do ye murmur that we do not break our vows and surrender the city to the Spaniards ? a fate more horrible than the agony which she now endures. I tell you I have made an oath to hold the city, and may God give me strength...  The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History - Page 571by John Lothrop Motley - 1856Full view - About this book
 | William Carlos Martyn - Netherlands - 1868 - 896 pages
...fate more horrible than the agony we now endure. I tell you I have made an oath to hold the town ; and may God give me strength to keep my oath. I can die but once, whether by your hands, or the enemy's, or by the stroke of my Maker. My own fate is indifferent to me ; not so that of the... | |
 | Mary Doig, Rosalia Vanderwerf (fict. name.) - 1872 - 96 pages
...city to the Spaniards — a fate more horrible than the agony which she now endures ? I tell you that I have made an oath to hold the city, and may God...keep my oath. I can die but once, whether by your hand, the hand of the enemy, or the hand of God. My own fate is indifferent to me — not so that of... | |
 | Titus Mooney Merriman - Netherlands - 1874 - 468 pages
...do not break our vows, and surrender the city to the Spaniards ? A fate more horrible than the agony she now endures ! I tell you I have made an oath to...city, and may God give me strength to keep my oath ! . . . . Starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 1146 pages
...demanded a surrender. " My life is at your disposal," said the heroic chief; " I can die but once, but I tell you I have made an oath to hold the city. It is a fate more horrible than famine to fall into the hands of the Spaniards. Take my body if it... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...demanded a surrender. ' My life is at your disposal," said the heroic chief ; " I can die but once, but I tell you I have made an oath to hold the city. It is a fate more horrible than famine to fall into the hands of the Spaniards. Take my body if it... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1878 - 448 pages
...city to the Spaniards, — a fate more horrible than the cgony which she now endures ? l tell you l have made an oath to hold the city; and may God give...once, whether by your hands, the enemy's, or by the haiid of God. My own fate is indifferent to me; not so that of the city intrusted to my care. I know... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1880 - 142 pages
...Why do you murmur that we do not break our vows and surrender our city to the Spaniards, a fate more horrible than the agony which she now endures ? I tell you I have made a vow to hold the city, and may God give me strength to keep it. I can die but once, whether by your... | |
 | Henriette de Witt - 1882 - 216 pages
...do not surrender the city to the Spaniards ? — a fate more horrible than the agony we now endure ! I tell you I have made an oath to hold the city unto the end, and may God give me strength to keep mine oath ! I can die but once, and I am ready ;... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 252 pages
...ye murmur that we do not break our vows and surrender 10 the city to the Spaniards? — a fate more horrible than the agony which she now endures. I tell...whether by your hands, the enemy's, or by the hand of (iod. My 15 own fate is indifferent to me ; not so that of the city intrusted to my care. I know that... | |
 | Frank Andrew Munsey - 1899 - 822 pages
...do ye murmur that we do not break our vows and surrender the city to the Spaniards ? — a fate more horrible than the agony which she now endures. I tell...hold the city, and may God give me strength to keep it! I can die but once; whether by your hands, the enemy's, or by the hand of God. My fate is indifferent... | |
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