 | 1783 - 458 էջ
...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 ;... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - 1800 - 564 էջ
...who perifhed, with- t— •*-*» in fixty-two years, on the fcaffold in England. He l6'ls* fuffered in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. From a fickly and froward infancy, he had acquired a robuftconftitution in manhood, capable of enduring... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 364 էջ
...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...fortitude of a hero, and the resignation of a Christian. Charles was endowed with many virtues and noble qualities' He was pious and temperate, a good husband,... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 էջ
...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....fortitude of a hero, and the resignation of a Christian. Charles was endowed with many virtues and noble qualities* He was pious and temperate, a good husband,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 398 էջ
...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 ;... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1826 - 318 էջ
...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... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1826 - 506 էջ
...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,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1827 - 494 էջ
...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 ; and... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1827 - 642 էջ
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1831 - 542 էջ
...active disloyalty to his king, or a passive compliance with his destroyers. 1 8. 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. His visage was pleasing, but melancholy ; and... | |
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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. 
