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Porcupine's Works: Containing Various Writings and Selections, Exhibiting a ... - Page 137
by William Cobbett - 1801
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 6, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...fmoakcd them with wifps of wet hay till they were fnffocated. They tied fome under the arms with rope?, and plunged them again and again into wells ; they bound others like criminals, put tritm to tlie torture, and with a funnel filled them with, vine till the fumes of it took a\vay their...
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A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious ..., Volume 2

Charles Buck - Theology - 1807 - 508 pages
...tied some under the aims with ropes, and plunged them again and again into wells ; they bound others, put them to the torture, and with a funnel filled...them with wine till the fumes of it took away their reason, when they made them say they consented to be Catholics. They stripped them naked, and, after...
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Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice

L. M. Stretch - 1808 - 316 pages
...hooks in chimnies, and smoakcd (hem with whisps of wet hay till they were suffocated. They tied some under the arms with ropes, and plunged them again...criminals, put them to the torture, and with a funnel iilled them with wine, till the fumes of it took awav their reason, when-they made them say they consented...
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A Theological Dictionary, Volume 2

Charles Buck - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...tied some under the arms with ropes, and plunged them again and again into wells ; they bound others, put them to the torture, and with a funnel filled...them with wine till the fumes of it took away their reason, when they made them say they consented to be Catholics. They stripped them naked, and after...
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A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All ..., Volumes 1-2

Charles Buck - Theology - 1815 - 546 pages
...some under the arms •with ropes, and plunged them again and again into wills ; they bound others, put them to the torture, and with a funnel filled them with wine till the fumes of it U.ck away their reason, when they made them ¡ say they consented to be Catholics. They j stripped...
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The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction [ed. by T. Byerley ...

Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...hooks in chimneys, and smoked them with wisps of wet hay till they were suffocated. They tied some under the arms with ropes, and plunged them again...them with wine, till the fumes of it took away their reason, when they made them say they consented to he catholics. They stript them naked, and after a...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 1

1823 - 494 pages
...hooks in chimnies, and smoked them with wisps of wet hay till they were suffocated. They tied some under the arms with ropes, and plunged them again...to the torture, and with a funnel filled them with win«, till the fumes of it took away their reason, when they made them say they consented to be catholics....
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 7

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 896 pages
...suffocated. They tied some under the arms with ropes, and plunged them again and again into welU ; they bound others like criminals, put them to the torture, and with a funnel filled them with \vine till the fumes of it took away their reason, when they made them say, they consented to be Catholics....
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The Wonders of Nature and Providence, Displayed

Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 638 pages
...tied some under the arms with ropes, and plonged them again and again into wells ; they bound others, put them to the torture, and with a funnel filled...them with wine till the fumes of it took away their reason, when they made them say they consented to be Catholics. They stripped them naked, and after...
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A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms, a ...

Charles Buck - Theology - 1829 - 614 pages
...tied some under the arms with ropes, and plunged them again and again into wells ; they bound others, put them to the torture, and with a funnel filled...them with wine till the fumes of it took away their reasonj when they made them say they consented to be Catholics. They stripped them naked, and, after...
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