| Oliver Goldsmith - 1771 - 468 pągines
...eloquence could prevail on a tyrant, whofe paflions were to be influenced by none of the nobler motives; the queen and her brother were tried by A jury of...crime of inceft was urged againft them is unknown j the chief evidence, it is faid, amounted to no more, than that Rochford had been feen to lean on... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1789 - 344 pągines
...the queen and her brother wtre tried by a jury of peers j but upon what proof or pretence Che.crime of inceft was urged againft them is unknown; the chief evidence, it is faid, amounted to no more, than that Rochford had been feen to lean on her bed before fome company.... | |
| David Hume - 1789 - 430 pągines
...nothing , and he would rather die a thoufand deaths than calumniate an innocent perfon. Her triil, THE queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers, confiding of the duke of Suffolk , the marquis of Exeter, the earl of Arundcl , and twenty -three more:... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1797 - 414 pągines
...his crime and accufe his miftrefs ; but he rejected the propofal with contempt, and died profeffing her innocence, and his own. The queen and her brother...againft them is unknown ; the chief evidence, it is .faid, amounted to no more than that Rochford had been fecn to lean on her before fome company. Part... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 498 pągines
...generously rejected the proposal ; and said, that in his conscience he believed her entirely guiltless. The queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers; the chief evidence amounted to no more than that Rocheford had been seen to lean on her bed, before... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 396 pągines
...profeffing her innocence and his own. '' v The queen'and her brother were tried by a jury of peers v. but upon what proof or pretence the crime of inceft was urged againft them is unknown j the chief evidence, > it is 1'iiil, amounted to no more than that Rochford had' been feen to lean... | |
| Mary Hays - 1803 - 414 pągines
...her of nothing ; and that rather than calumniate an innocent person, he would die a thousand deaths. The queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers ; their uncle, the duke of Norfolk, presiding as lord high-steward. The evidence of incest amounted... | |
| Mary Hays - 1803 - 414 pągines
...her of nothing ; and that rather than calumniate an innocent person, he would die a thousand deaths. The queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers \ their uncle, the duke of Norfolk, presiding as lord high-steward. The evidence of incest amounted... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 346 pągines
...his crime and. accuse his mistress ; but he rejected the proposal with contempt, and died professing her innocence and his own.. , . . The queen and her...peers ; - but upon what proof or pretence the crime of incest was urged against them is unknown ; the chief evidence, it is said, amounted to no more, than... | |
| 1808 - 388 pągines
...impatience of the King, they were considered as certain evidences of more serious and substantial guilt. The Queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers j — her uncle, the pliant and ambitious Norfolk, presiding as high steward. The evidence of the horrible... | |
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