 | George H. Knox - 1905 - 324 pages
...convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law; I have also understood the judges sometimes think it then" duty to hear with patience, and to speak with humanity,...to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the proposed ignomy of the scaffold— but worse to me than the proposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 484 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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 556 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... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 280 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,... | |
 | Alvin Victor Sellers - 1919 - 318 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? 1 My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - 1915 - 784 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...the principles by which he was actuated? My lords-,- ftrse to me than the scaffold's terrors would be the tame endurance of such foul* c .infUnfounded imputations... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 876 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... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 874 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... | |
 | 1928 - 898 pages
...impartiality, clemency and of your courts of justice, 763 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? "You my Lord, are a judge. I am the supposed culprit. I am a man — you are a man also. By a revolution... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - 1880 - 560 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... | |
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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... 
