 I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to...  Mediaeval and Modern History - Page 243by Philip Van Ness Myers - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Ward - 1647 - 120 pages
...on the head; and every tenth man of the soldiers killed; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. ' ' "I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood. ' ' 1 Carlyle, Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell,... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 560 pages
...adds he, " that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the m Borlase's History of the execrable Irish Rebellion, p. 222. fol. Lond. 1680. » Id. p. 234. out among... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 542 pages
...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. — I am perswaded," adds he, " that this is a righteous judgment of God Upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the * Borlase's History... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1829 - 352 pages
...John FieM, printer to the Parliament of England, 1649. Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it -will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 686 pages
...John Field, printer to the Parliament of England, 1649. Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | 1832 - 448 pages
...and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. I am prrsuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will teud to prevent the effusion of blood for the future, which are the satisfactory grounds for such actions,... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1838 - 394 pages
...confessed he was a friar; but that did not 'save him."* Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | 1838 - 380 pages
...In a subsequent letter on the same subject indeed he confesses this. " I am persuaded," he says, " that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the t'ffusion of blood... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 pages
...taking of Drogheda, he says, * Fonter'i Life of Cromwell. Lardncr'i Cyclopajdia, vol. i., p. 270-1. " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, -who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 588 pages
...in the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
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