 | 1783 - 458 pàgines
...in this laft a6l of atrocious guilt, thrown an indelible ftain upon the nation. Charles was executed in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. He was of a middle flat u re, robuft, and well proportioned. His vifage was pleafing, but melancholy... | |
 | 1801 - 860 pàgines
...within tixty-two years, on the fcaffold in En^l.ind. Hel'urfered in the fortyninth year of his aye, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. From a fickly and froward infancy, he hnd acquired a robuíl conült.ition in manhood, capable of enduring hardships and fatigue, and well,... | |
 | John Bigland, Jedidiah Morse - 1812 - 470 pàgines
...palace, at Whitehall, on the thirtieth of January, 1649. Thus fell Charles I. a victim to rebellion, in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. He died with the fortitude of a hero and the resignation of a Christian ; and the title of martyr has... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 364 pàgines
...was executed before his palace at Whitehall, on the thirtieth of January, 1649. Thus fell Charles I. in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. He died with the fortitude of a hero, and the resignation of a Christian. Charles was endowed with... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 398 pàgines
...or a passive compliance with his destroyers. 1649. Charles was executed on the thirtieth of January, in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. He waa of a middling stature, robust, and well proportioned. His visage was pleasing, but melancholy... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1826 - 506 pàgines
...streaming with blood, "and exclaimed, "This is the head of a traitor." '"' ^° Thus perished Charles, in the forty-ninth year of his age, 'and the twenty-fourth of his reign. His body was privately Interred at Windsor. He left six children : Charles, his successor ; James,... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1826 - 318 pàgines
...chief instruments of his death ; at one blow, his head was severed from his body. Charles was executed in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. His features were regular and handsome ; though of rather a melancholy aspect : he was of a middle... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1827 - 642 pàgines
...some feeble attempts at the restoration to find it out, and bestow on it funereal honours. Charles was in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twentyfourth of his reign, when he fell a sacrifice to his obstinate love of arbitrary power in church and state, and the multiplicity... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1827 - 494 pàgines
...or a passive compliance with his destroyers. •>•• 10. Charles was executed January 30, 1649, in the fortyninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. He was of middling stature, robust, and well proportioned. His visage was pleasing, but melancholy... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pàgines
...to plead. He was nevertheless condemned to suffer death, and was beheaded the third day afterwards, in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twentyfourth of his reign. On the morning of the fatal day, which was the 30th of January, 1649, Charles rose earlier than usual,... | |
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Charles was executed in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. He was of a middle stature, robust, and well proportioned. 
