| Samuel Burder - Women - 1827 - 468 pages
...as for children. He was a father to all his prisoners, sweetening with such compassionate kindness their restraint, that the affliction of a prison was not felt in his days. He had a singular kindness for all persons that were eminent either in learning or arms ; and... | |
| David Francis Bacon - Christian biography - 1833 - 630 pages
...as for children. He was a father to all his prisoners, sweetening with such compassionate kindness their restraint, that the affliction of a prison was not felt in his days. He had a singular kindness for all persons that were eminent either in learning or arms; and... | |
| George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 398 pages
...the Tower, says, " he was a father to all his prisoners, sweetening with such compassionate kindness their restraint, that the affliction of a prison was not felt in his days." She adds, that he had a singular kindness for all persons that were eminent in learning. —... | |
| George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 390 pages
...the Tower, says, " he was a father to all his prisoners, sweetening with such compassionate kindness their restraint, that the affliction of a prison was not felt in his days." She adds, that he had a singular kindness for all persons that were eminent in learning.—(Memoirs... | |
| David Jardine - Great Britain - 1835 - 534 pages
...traitor. says she, * ' the father of all his prisoners, sweetening with such compassionate kindness their restraint, that the affliction of a prison was not felt in those days ; he had also a singular kindness for all persons who were eminent in learning or in arms.'... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1843 - 456 pages
...sixteen. In his office of lieutenant of the Tower he was, according to his daughter, Mrs. Hutehinson's, report, "a father to all his prisoners, sweetening...city yielded to the parliament in April 1646, and afIerwards governor of Barnstaple before that town surrendered. After the Restoration he was captain-lieutenant... | |
| Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 438 pages
...and father, a noble master, a father to his prisoners ; sweetening with such compassionate kindness their restraint, that the affliction of a prison was not felt in his days. " He had a singular kindness for persons that were eminent either in learning or arms; and when,... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 pages
...character of him : "He was the father of all his prisoners, sweetening with such compassionate kindness their restraint, that the affliction of a prison was not felt in those days ; he had also a singular kindness for all persons who were eminent in learning or in arms."... | |
| Biography - 1852 - 798 pages
...their children. He was a father to all his prisoners — sweetening with such compassionate kindness their restraint, that the affliction of a prison was not felt in his days. He had a singular kindness for all persons that were eminent either in learning or arms ; and... | |
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