| Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pages
...loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of beine an emissary of France ? ' b ' My lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind, hy humiliation to meet the ignominy of the scaffold but worse to mo than the scaffold's shame, or the... | |
| Member of the bar - 1836 - 560 pages
...and mildness of your courts of justice, if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not pure justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the...vindicate the principles by which he was actuated 1 My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice, to bow a man's mind by humiliation to... | |
| John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - 1840 - 562 pages
...and mildness of your courts of justice, if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not pure justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the...justice, to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
| Patrick O'Kelly - 1842 - 336 pages
...clemency, and mildness of your courts of justice, if an in fortunate prisoner, whom your policy and not justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the...motives sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the motives by which he was actuated? My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice, to bow... | |
| Patrick O'Kelly - 1842 - 336 pages
...clemency, and mildness of your courts of justice, if an infortnnate prisoner, whom your policy and not justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the...not suffered to explain his motives sincerely and trnly, and to vindicate the motives by which he was actuated ? My lords, it may be a part of the system... | |
| Robert Emmet - 1845 - 140 pages
...-with humanity ; to exhort the victim of the laws, and to offer, with tender benignity, his -opinion of the motives by which he was actuated in the crime...ignominy of the scaffold — but worse to me than the proposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations... | |
| 1845 - 558 pages
...and mildness of your courts of justice, if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not pure justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the...justice, to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...and mildness of your courte of justice ? if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not pure justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the executioner, is not suffered to explain bis motives, sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles, by which he was actuated. My lords,... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...clemency, and mildness of your courts of justice? if an uifonunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not pure justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the executioner, is nol sudered to explain ha motives, sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principle*, by which he... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1846 - 366 pages
...clemency, and mildness of your courts of justice, if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the executioner, is not suffered to explain Lord Norbury interrupted the prisoner. " My Lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice,... | |
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