 | Charles Phillips - 1857 - 522 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...by which he was actuated ? " My lords, it may be, as I have said, a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed... | |
 | A member of the bar - 1857 - 562 pages
...explain his motives sinoeivlv ;i{ji,tiuly. and to vindicate the principles by which he was actual ? 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 purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...benignity their opinions of the motives by which he was actuated in the crime of which he had been adjudged guilty. That a judge has thought it his duty...vindicate the principles by which he was actuated? OSGOOD'S FIFTH READER. 343 scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...of the orphans and the tears of the widows which it has made. CXCV.— EMMBTT'S DEFENSE.— No. II. 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 scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | 1859 - 370 pages
...your courts of justice, if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not justice, is about tc deliver into the hands of the executioner, is not...justice, to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the pur. posed shame of the scaffold's terrors... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 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...not suffered to explain his motives sincerely and duly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? in. ' MY LORDS, it may be a part of... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1866 - 568 pages
...speak with humanity, to exhort the victim of the laws, and to offer with tender benignity their opinion of the motives by which he was actuated in the crime...humiliation to the proposed ignominy of the scaffold ; hut worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...love of country, to a sublime defiance of unmerited obloquy and death, and then speak accordingly. 1. 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 scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...SOMEWHERE ; whether in the sentence of the court, or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. My lord, 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 purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...love of country, to a sublime defiance of unmerited obloquy and death, and then speak accordingly. 1. 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 scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
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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... 
