 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 344 páginas
...and False," p. 13. The Famous Stocking Case A WOMAN and her daughter, nine years old, were hanged in Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings! — Ibid., p. 20. Nora 10 — Page 166 Enslaving So young a king, and so ignorant a peasant were likely... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 340 páginas
...and False;" p. 13. The Famous Stocking Case A WOMAN and her daughter, nine yean old, were hanged in Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings! — Ibid., p. 20. NOTE 10—Page 166 Enslaving So young a king, and so ignorant a peasant were likely... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1902 - 344 páginas
...and False," p. 13. The Famous Stocking Case. A WOMAN and her daughter, nine years o!d, were hanged in Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings ! — Hid., p. 30. NOTE io.— Page 154. Enslaving. So young a king, and so ignorant a peasant were... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1903 - 266 páginas
...Yet even in 1716, five years after this paper was written, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, a child of nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap ! . . . One of the worst stains on the memory of the Long Parliament, and on the fair fame of Puritanism... | |
 | William Henry Gocher - 1904 - 410 páginas
...Huntingdon, the town in which Cromwell was born, and he in all probability witnessed the execution, for selling their souls to the devil and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings. To Hartford, Connecticut, belongs the doubtful honor of killing the first witch in America. In 1646... | |
 | 1905 - 818 páginas
...women to die for this offense. In 1716 a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The colonists of New England did not pretend to be wiser upon... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1909 - 334 páginas
...and False" p. 13. Tht Famous Stocking Cast A WOMAN and her daughter, nint yean old, were hanged in Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling ofl theii stockings I — Itid., p. 20. Nora 10 — Page 166 Enslaving So young a king, and so ignorant... | |
 | Hongzhang Li - 1913 - 560 páginas
...with Satan ' " (Ibid., p. 279). " In 1716 Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, nine years "of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the "devil, and raising...off their "stockings and making a lather of soap. "In England it has been estimated that at least " thirty thousand were hanged and burned. The last... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1909 - 318 páginas
...False," p. 13. 277 The Famous Stocking Case A WOMAN and her daughter, nine years old, were hanged is Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling ofiE their stockings! — Ibid., p. 20. NOTE 10 — Page 141 Enslaving So young a king, and so ignorant... | |
 | 1926 - 608 páginas
...Trumbull's Blue Laws, True and False, p. 20: "A woman and her daughter, nine years old, were hanged in Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings!" (p. 278). goodness he was heah now — den what would he say! I jis' bet he couldn' fine no way to... | |
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Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes. 
