 | Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing- rather to die than live." She was then executed, amid the tears of the spectators. A variety... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing rather to die than live." She was then executed, amid the tears of the spectators. A variety... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." " Say you, therefore, Egeria, that the laws whicli led to such effects were either wise or requisite... | |
 | Law - 1825 - 318 pages
...prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing rather to die than live." This unhappy creature is said to have been executed amid the tears... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Witchcraft - 1831 - 316 pages
...prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live. Sir George Mackenzie says that he went to examine some women who had confessed, and that one of them,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - History - 1831 - 302 pages
...prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live.' Sir George Mackenzie says that he went to examine some women who had confessed, and that one of them,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 546 pages
...prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live;'—and so died. Which lamentable story, as it did then astonish all the spectators, none of which... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1836 - 432 pages
...the name of a witch, — disowned by my husband and friends, — and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...and choosing rather to die than live." — And so died.1 It was remarkable that the number of supposed witches seemed to increase in proportion to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming oat of prison, or ever coming in credit again, through...temptation of the devil I made up that confession, on pnrpose to destroy my own Hfe, being weary of it, and chusing rather to die than lire ;' — and so... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 356 pages
...prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing'rather to die than live ;' — and so died. Which lamentable story, as it did then astonish... | |
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... be upon my own head ; and as I must make answer to the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child ; but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends,... 
