 | George Bancroft - 1837 - 496 pages
...answer, his wife, a young woman, stepped forward: — "My provocations" — such were her words — "made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon...; but for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is 1 Burwell Account, 02. Cotton, 9. Hening, lii. 567. < THE GRAND REBELLION IN VIRGINIA.... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 494 pages
...answer, his wife, a young woman, stepped forward : — " My provocations " — such were her words — "made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon...; but for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is done," she added, falling on her knees, " was done by CHAP. my means, I am most guilty... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 500 pages
...answer, his wife, a young woman, stepped forward: — "My provocations" — such were her words — " made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon...; but for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is I Burwell Account, 62. Cotton, 9. Hening, iii. 567 done," she added, falling on her knees,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 550 pages
...forward—"My provocations"—such were her words—" made my husband join in the cause for which Baeon contended ; but for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is done," she added, falling on her knees, " was done by my means, I am most guilty; let... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - 1872 - 344 pages
...Wilford, were captured shortly after, upon, the York River. Wilton was the son of a royalist knight, \\lio had died fighting for Charles I. Alluding to the eye...fierceness of his passion, a term of reproach that Bullied the lips which uttered it. When Drummond was brought in a prisoner, Berkeley made him a profound... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1875 - 660 pages
...Bacon's wicked scheme, before he could answer, his young wife stepped forward and said: "My provocations made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon...; but for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is done/' she said, -as. she fell upon her knees in an attitude of supplication, with her... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 584 pages
...frame an answer, his wife, a young woman, stepped forward. " My provocations," such were her words, " made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon...; but for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is done," she added, falling on her knees, " was done by my means, I am most guilty ; let... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 660 pages
...wife pleaded that he had acted under her influence, and falling on her knees said : " My provocations made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon...contended ; but for me, he had never done what he has done ; let me bear the punishment ; but let my husband be pardoned." She spoke truth ; but the governor... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1888 - 658 pages
...wife pleaded that he had acted under her influence, and falling on her knees said : " My provocations made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon...contended ; but for me, he had never done what he has done ; let me bear the punishment ; but let my husband be pardoned." She spoke truth ; but the governor... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1893 - 446 pages
...Bacon's wicked scheme, before he could answer, his young wiie stepped forward and said: "My provocation made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon...contended. But for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is done," she sobbed, falling on her knees in an attitude of supplication, with her head... | |
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Why did you engage in Bacon's designs ? " Before the prisoner could frame an answer, his wife, a young woman, stepped forward. " My provocations," such were her words, " made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon contended ; but for me, he had... 
