If ye were permitted, I doubt not your cruelty could go that length; but how will ye answer for this morning's work?" With a countenance that belied his words, he answered, " To men I can be answerable ; and as for God, I will take him in my own hands... Kilsyth: A Parish History - Página 64por Peter Anton - 1893 - 320 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Buchanan - 1856 - 686 páginas
...not but your cruelty would go that length ; but how will you make answer for this morning's work ?" " To men I can be answerable, and as for God I will take him in my own hand," replied Grahame, and, mounting his horse, rode off with his troops. But he • Wodrow,... | |
| Thomas M'Crie - 1857 - 526 páginas
...he had done ; to which the hardened and remorseless villain proudly replied, — " To man 1 can lie answerable, and as for God, I will take him into my own hand" The apologists of Claverhouse have been obliged to notice the fact of his becoming the executioner... | |
| Mark Napier - 1859 - 480 páginas
...When tears and entreaties could not prevail, and Claverhouse had shot him dead, I am credibly informed the widow said to him, — ' Well, Sir, you .must...— ' To men I can be answerable, and as for God, I'll take him into mine own hand.' I am well informed that Claverhouse himself frequently acknowledged... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 páginas
...widow's cry of agony, and the murderer's awful response, " To man I can answer for what I have done, and as for God I will take Him into my own hand." In all that brilliant gallery there is not perhaps another picture that S) stirs the imagination and... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - 1860 - 270 páginas
...sir, well : the day of reckoning will come." He replies with fiendish smile, " to man I can answer ; and as for God, I will take Him into my own hand." Then mounting his horse, the soldiers march; but she, placing on the ground her fatherless child, ties... | |
| 1860 - 762 páginas
...crnelty would go that length. But how will you answer for this morning's work 1 " " To man," he said, " I can be answerable ; and as for God, I will take him in my own hands." He and the soldiers then rode off, and left Marion beside the body of her dead hushand.... | |
| John Howie - 1863 - 680 páginas
...length ; but how will ye answer for this morning's work ?" With a countenance that belied his words, he answered, " To men I can be answerable ; and as for God, I will take him in my own hands :" Thus saying, he hastily put spurs to his horse, and left her with the corpse. She... | |
| Arthur Bailey Thompson - 1865 - 748 páginas
...reckoning will come." To this the impious commander replied : " To man I can answer for what I have done, and as for God, I will take him into my own hand." We need give no further instances of these cold-blooded murders, for they make the heart ache and the... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 528 páginas
...cruelty would go to that length ; but how will ye answer ,for this morning's work?" "To man," he said, "I can be answerable ; and as for God, I will take him in my own hand." He then mounted his horse and rode off, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 284 páginas
...cruelty would go to that length ; but how will ye answer for this morning's work ?" " To man," he said, " I can be answerable ; and as for God, I will take him in my own hand." He then mounted his horse and rode off, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband... | |
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