 | 1848 - 456 pages
...of mercy, and with hand pressed upon his heart, gave utterance to the truly apposite comment, "Put not your trust in Princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation." It has been said, but surely without reason, that this exclamation was inconsistent with the magnanimity... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 pages
...death-warrant of his former minister, Strafford, who was beheaded on the Wednesday following. " Put not your trust in princes, nor " in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation," exclaimed the earl, raising his hands to heaven, when he was told that the king had given his assent... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1848 - 860 pages
...he rose from his chair, lifted up his eyes to heaven, laid his hand upon his heart, and said, "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation." ' T'.vd days after the fatal Saturday, on Monday, the 10th of Mny, the commission empowering the Earl... | |
 | Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...dooming him to death, he lays his hand on his heart, raising his eyes to heaven, and exclaims : " Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."f to pass without a direct denial, [ beg leave here to adduce some evidence touching that... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...indignant and reproachfnl exclamation when the news of the king's assent was brought to him — ' Put not your trust in princes nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation.' The unfortunate earl, a man perhaps as much sinned against as sinning, soon recovered his usual sad... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 pages
...of the fatal truth, he lifted his eyes to heaven, and, with his hand on his heart, exclaimed, " Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men; for in them there is no salvation." His conduct, from this time to his execution, was in the highest degree composed and noble. At the... | |
 | John Gorton - 1851 - 690 pages
...assured of the fatal truth, he lifted his eyes to heaven, and with his hand on his heart exclaimed, " Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men ; for in them there is no salvation.1' His conduct from this time to his execution was in the highest degree composed and noble.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 pages
...the fatal truth, he raised his eyes to heaven, and, laying his hand on his heart, exclaimed, ' Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation.' Canting scoundrel — a hypocrite in his very last act ! Nothing indeed can justify the measures of... | |
 | Bulstrode Whitlocke - 1853 - 612 pages
...would have done it. his chair, lift up his eyes to heaven, laid his hand on his heart, and said, Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation. Great censures (as in all great businesses) were passed upon Censures. the king's passing of both these... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 558 pages
...Strafford of the final resolution which necessity had extorted from him : the earl seemed surprised, and, starting up, exclaimed, in the words of Scripture,...sons of men ; for in them there is no salvation.' r He was soon able, however, to collect his courage ; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.... | |
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Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence. 
