Than this there cannot exist a more excruciating punishment, since the wretches exposed frequently linger a long time in the most agonising torture, before the hand of death relieves them ; and the spectacle of such frightful agonies must, if anything... Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir - Page 84by Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) - 1829 - 141 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 pages
...Seated in the pavilion, having directed a number of sharp stakes to be set up in the bed of the Bauvy, I caused the seven hundred traitors who had conspired...of perfidy and treason towards their benefactors." From Lahour, after the suppression of this dangerous rebellion, the Emperor returned to Agrah. In mentioning... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1875 - 598 pages
...pavilion, having directed a number of sharp stakes to be set up in the bed of the Kauvy, I caused the 700 traitors who had conspired with Khossrou against my...exposed frequently linger a long time in the most agonising torture, before the hand of death relieves them ; and the spectacle of such frightful agonies... | |
| Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 456 pages
...with Khosrow against my authority, to be impaled alive upon them. Than this," he coolly continues, " there cannot exist a more excruciating punishment;...relieves them ; and the spectacle of such frightful agony most if anything can, operate as a due example, to deter others from similar acts of perfidy... | |
| Albert Fytche - 1878 - 406 pages
...were 700 in number, and in commenting upon it he remarks :— " Than this (execution by impalement) there cannot exist a more excruciating punishment...torture, before the hand of death relieves them." The process consisted of lightly poising the victim above a sharp stake, in such manner that, by wriggling... | |
| Albert Fytche - 1878 - 400 pages
...impaled were 700 In number, and in commenting upon it he remarks:—"Than this (execution by impalement) there cannot exist a more excruciating punishment;...wretches exposed frequently linger a long time in the mobt agonizing torture, before the hand of death relieves them." The process consisted of lightly poising... | |
| A. Retired chaplain - 1882 - 400 pages
...impaled thereon, and thus receive their deserts in this most excruciating punishment." Again he says, " Than this there cannot exist a more excruciating punishment,...agonizing torture before the hand of death relieves them. " The process consisted of lightly poising the victim over a sharp stake, in such a manner that, by... | |
| A. Retired chaplain - 1882 - 430 pages
...impaled thereon, and thus receive their deserts in this most excruciating punishment." Again he says, " Than this there cannot exist a more excruciating punishment,...agonizing torture before the hand of death relieves them. " The process consisted of lightly poising the victim over a sharp stake, in such a manner that, by... | |
| Charles W. McMinn - 1902 - 148 pages
...stakes to be set up in the bed of the Ravi, I caused the 700 traitors who had conspired with Khusru against my authority to be impaled alive upon them."...exposed frequently linger a long time in the most agonising torture before the hand of death relieves them, and the spectacle of such frightful agonies... | |
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