 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 pages
...tomcwhtre; 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,... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 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,... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...clemency, aud 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? 12. My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind, by humiliation,... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...crime of which he was adjudged guilty. That a judge has .hought it his duty so to have done, I lave no doubt ; but where is the boasted freedom of your...to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the proposed ignomy of the scaffold— but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 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 be a Ixu-t of the system of angry justice to bow I a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy... | |
 | 1887 - 958 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...and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which ho was actuated? My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1888 - 472 pages
...loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of French tyranny and French despotism ? My lords, it may be a 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,... | |
 | Alexander Martin Sullivan - 1892 - 686 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 of the scaffold's terror... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 462 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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 562 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 his motives clearly and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? My lords, it may be a... | |
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