 | Richard Robert Madden - 1847 - 380 pages
...grievous calumny of being an emissary of French tyranny and French despotism ? My Lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice, to bow a man's mind by humiliation to meet the ignominy of the scaffold, but worse to me than the scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1850 - 520 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...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,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1850 - 534 pages
...grievous calumny of being an emissary of French tyranny and French despotism ? My Lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to meet the ignominy of the scaffold, but worse to me than the scaffold's shame or the scaffold's terrors... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1851 - 464 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...principles by which he was actuated ? " My lords, it may he a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1851 - 476 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...truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he \vas actuated ? "My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 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...vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? m. ^fY LORDS, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind, by humiliation,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...prisoner, whom your policy, and not justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the exeeutioner, is not suffered to explain his motives sincerely and...vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? in. MY LORDS, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind, by humiliation,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 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 notNauffered to explain his motives sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he... | |
 | John W. Burke - 1853 - 324 pages
...instittitions — where is the- vaunted impartiality, clemency, and mildness,of your courts of justice, if arr unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not your...ignominy of the scaffold — but worse to me than the proposed shame 0r the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations... | |
 | 1854 - 576 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...vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? m. MY LORDS, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind, by humiliation,... | |
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My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the... 
