inexecutable

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Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, the type of Puritanism found futil, inexecutable, execrable.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

It is a general and almost universal conviction that this Constitution is inexecutable.

From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Durand, John

Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn- gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable,—yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

The King has accepted this Constitution, knowing beforehand that it will not serve: he studies it, and executes it in the hope mainly that it will be found inexecutable.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable,—yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas