| William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 514 pages
...conducted to the common place of execution amidst a vast concourse of the populace; stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur. His thighs, legs, and arms, were tora with red-hot pincers. 'Boiling... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 572 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur : his thighs, legs, and arms were torn with red hot pincers ;... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 576 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the- Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur : his thighs, legs, and arms were torn with red hot pincers ;... | |
| John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...Greve, the common place of execution, amidst a vast concourse of the pop.ulace ; stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur. His thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with red-hot pincers ;... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 432 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in b'quid flaming sulphur: his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with red hot pincers; boiling... | |
| David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 476 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur ; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with red hot pincers ;... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1836 - 840 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves : one of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur ; his thighs, legs, and arms were torn with red-hot pincers ;... | |
| William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 620 pages
...conducted to the common place of execution, amid a vast concourse of the populace, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur. His thighs, legs, and arms-were torn with red-hot pincers. Boiling... | |
| Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Grève, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burned in liquid flaming sulphur ; bis thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with redhot pincers ;... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1848 - 530 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur ; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with red-hot pincers ;... | |
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