 | Juan Bautista Ignacio Molina - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...send me to Spain, where, if your king thinks proper to condemn me, I may end my days without causing new disturbances in my country." Vain were the attempts...to execute him, he was so exasperated. that, with a 166 furious kick, he hurled the executioner from the scaffold, exclaiming, " Is there no sword, and... | |
 | Giovanni Ignazio Molina - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...king thinks proper to condemn me, I may end my days without causing new disturbances in my country.5' Vain were the attempts of the unfortunate general...hurled the executioner from the scaffold, exclaiming, ec Is there no sword, and some less unworthy hand to be found to put to death a man like myself ? This... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...this mock ceremony, he was placed on the scaffold. But when he saw the instrument of death, which till then he did not clearly comprehend, and a negro prepared...from the scaffold, exclaiming, " Is there no sword, nor more worthy hand to take the life of Caupolican ? This is not justice; it is base revenge!" Uttering... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...they pride themselves as a nation. He ordered the sentence to be immediately executed. The prisoner was conducted, | amidst a crowd of people, to a scaffold...of punishment, which until then he did not clearly compre- | hend, and a negro prepared to execute him, ; he was so exasperated that, with a furious kick,... | |
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Vain were the attempts of the unfortunate general to prevail upon Reynoso, whose name is held in detestation not only by the Araucanians, but by the Spaniards themselves, who have ever reprobated, his conduct, as contrary to those principles of generosity... 