| James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 438 páginas
...were his last words. Tracy again struck him. He fell forward upon 1 ' Lenoncm appellans.' — Grim. his knees and hands. In that position Le Breton dealt...among the most enduring incidents of English history. Was Becket a martyr, or was he justly executed as a traitor to his sovereign ? Even in that supreme... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 398 páginas
...These were his last words. Tracy again struck him. He fell forward upon his knees and hands. In thiit position Le Breton dealt him a blow which severed...among the most enduring incidents of English history. Was Becket a martyr, or was he justly executed as a traitor to his sovereign ? Even in that supreme... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 396 páginas
...Church." 1 " Lcnonem appellans." In extreme moments Becket was never able to maintain his dignity. 8 These were his last words. Tracy again struck him....was the murder of Becket, the echoes of which are etill heard across seven centuries of time, and which, be the final judgment upon it what it may, has... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 464 páginas
...clasped, he bent his neck for the death-stroke, saying in a low voice, "I am prepared to die for Christ and for his Church." These were his last words. Tracy...among the most enduring incidents of English history. Was Becket a martyr, or was he justly executed as a traitor to his sovereign ? Even in that supreme... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 432 páginas
...clasped, he bent his neck for the death-stroke, saying in a low voice, "I am prepared to die for Christ and for his Church." These were his last words. Tracy...among the most enduring incidents of English history. Was Becket a martyr, or was he justly executed as a traitor to his sovereign ? Even in that supreme... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 444 páginas
...broke the sword against the stone, saying, " Take that for my Lord William." De Broc or Mauclerc—the needless ferocity was attributed to both of them —...among the most enduring incidents of English history. Was Becket a martyr, or was he justly executed as a traitor to his sovereign ? Even in that supreme... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 páginas
...clasped, he bent his neck for the death-stroke, saying in a low voice, " I am prepared to die for Christ and for his Church." These were his last words. Tracy...among the most enduring incidents of English history. Was Becket a martyr, or was he justly executed as a triitor to his sovereign? Even in that supreme... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1907 - 434 páginas
...clasped, he bent his neck for the deathstroke, saying in a low voice, ' I am prepared to die for Christ and for His Church.' These were his last words. Tracy...among the most enduring incidents of English history. Was Becket a martyr, or was he justly executed as a traitor to his sovereign ? Even in that supreme... | |
| Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 640 páginas
...clasped, he bent his neck for the death stroke, saying in a low voice, "I am prepared to die for Christ and for his Church." These were his last words. Tracy...among the most enduring incidents of English history. Was Becket a martyr, or was he justly executed as a traitor to his sovereign ? Even in that supreme... | |
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