 ... and the poor wretch (who was hanged}, it is hardly uncharitable to believe, fell a victim to the ignorance of the nineteenth century, and the stupid brutality still remaining in the criminal laws of England. The flame that does not burn, and the artificial...  The parlour novelist - Pàgina 379per Parlour novelist - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1836 - 1014 pàgines
...all, would have been ashamed to be thought more credulous of impossibilities than a heathen poet; and the poor wretch (who was hanged}, it is hardly uncharitable...the epoch when the glorious Virgin of DomRemi was burnt for sorcery; but the peculiar character of the prevailing superstition is shown so clearly in... | |
 | 1836 - 650 pàgines
...reason to believe had set fire to itself by the casual meeting of different chemical substances. And the poor wretch (who was hanged), it is hardly uncharitable...different little treatises on chemical recreations. " The impositions of Orosmandel, if more refined, would have been less true both to the manners of the epoch... | |
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