He was the most fearless of death that ever was known; and the most resolute and confident, yet with reverence and conscience. When I began to encourage him against the fear of death, he seemed to make so light of it that I wondered at him. Lord Bacon and Sir Walter Raleigh - Page 268by Macvey Napier - 1853 - 273 pagesFull view - About this book
| Arthur Cayley - 1806 - 482 pages
...town, he said it stood upon the king's own ground, and, therefore, he did no wrong in that. ' He was the most fearless of death that ever was known ; and the most resolute and confident, yet with reverence and conscience. When I began to encourage him against the... | |
| 1820 - 524 pages
...execution, in a letter to Sir John Isham of Lamport, in Northamptonshire. " ' He was,' says the Dean, ' the most fearless of death that ever was known ; and the most resolute and confident, yet with reverence and conscience. When I began to encourage him against, the... | |
| Henry Clissold - 1829 - 716 pages
...Cayley. •j- Dr. Townson's testimony agrees with this account, for he states that " Sir Walter was the most fearless of death that ever was known ; and the most resolute. and confident, yet with reverence and conscience." " Sir Walter was quite cheerful," says... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1834 - 312 pages
...Sir John Isham, of Lamport, in Northamptonshire, dated November 9, 1618. " He was," says the dean, " the most fearless of death that ever was known; and the most resolute and confident, yet with reverence and conscience. When I began to encourage him against the... | |
| David Jardine - 1835 - 534 pages
...commanded by the Lords of the Council to be with him both in prison and at his death, says * ' he was the most fearless of death that ever was known, and the most resolute and confident, — yet with reverence and conscience. When I began to encourage him against... | |
| John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...powerful emotions — of pity, wonder, and admiration. His deportment throughout the prolonged scene evinced a degree of mental strength, self-possession,...fearless of death that ever was known, and the most resolute and confident, get with reverence and conscience." — Edinburgh Review. Laporte.—l appeared... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 492 pages
...powerful emotions — of pity, wonder, and admiration. His deportment throughout the prolonged scene, evinced a degree of mental strength, self-possession,...calmness, and superiority to the fear of death, that might he described as godlike. His devotion appeared sincere and elevated, and tempered a courage which nothing... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pages
...Raleigh," — says Dr. Townson, Dean of Westminster, who attended him in his last moments, — " was the most fearless of death that ever was known ; and the most resolute and confident, yet with reverence and conscience. After he had received the communion in the... | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh - 1848 - 342 pages
...told by Dr. Tounson, Dean of Westminster, who attended Sir Walter in his last hours, that " he was the most fearless of death that ever was known ; and the most resolute and confident, yet with reverence and conscience." " The world," Ralegh calmly observed, "... | |
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