 | Philip Lawrence - Recitations - 1871 - 410 pages
...the law, which delivers my body to the executioner, will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to...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... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to...court, or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. 5. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor in its own vindication to consign my character to obloquy,8 for there must be guilt somewhere ; whether in the...court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. 3. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port; when my shade shall have joined the lands... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...anchor my character in the breast of a Court constituted and trammelled as this is. I only wish, and it is the utmost I expect, that your Lordships may suffer...to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated, but the difficulties of established... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...the law, which delivers my body to the executioner, will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to...court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. 3. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port ; when my shade shall have joined the bands... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 pages
...anchor my character in the breast of a Court constituted and trammelled as this is. I only wish, and it is the utmost I expect, that your Lordships may suffer...Court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. [Lord Norbury, one of the judges. Interrupted the speaker.] My Lords, it may be a part of the system... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...anchor my character in the breast of a court constituted and trammelled as this is. I only wish, and it is the utmost I expect, that your lordships may suffer...determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encpunter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or... | |
 | Recitations - 1876 - 732 pages
...sentence of law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to...court, or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. The man dies, but his memory lives. That mine may not perish, — that it may live in the respect of... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1878 - 400 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor in its own vindication to consign my character to obloquy, 3 for there must be guilt somewhere ; whether in the...court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. friendly port; when my shade shall have joined the bands of those martyred heroes who have shed their... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - Crime - 1879 - 442 pages
...to suffer death, after being adjudged guilty by your tribunal, I should bow in silence, and meet tho fate that awaits me without a murmur ; but the sentence...somewhere, — whether in the sentence of the court or in tho catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter... | |
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... for there must be guilt somewhere, whether in the sentence of the Court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds which... 
