 | Crime - 1815 - 706 pages
...to be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France ? My lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to meet the ignominj' of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | C. H. Gifford - Europe - 1817 - 944 pages
...be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France ? " 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,... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1038 pages
...to be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France? " My lord, 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 - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...impartiality and clemency of your courts of justice, if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, not pure justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the executioner, is *iot suffered to explain his motives sincerely and truly, to vindicate the principles by which he was... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...motives sincerely and truly, and to vin» dicate the principles by which he was actuated I 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 scaflbld ;, but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 368 pages
...to be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France ? 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,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...to be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France ? 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...to be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France? * My Lord, 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,... | |
 | Orators - 1834 - 602 pages
...mildness of your courts of justice, if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not pure justice, b about to deliver into the hands of the executioner,...justice, to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy ol" the scaffold; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...impartiality and clemency of your courts of justice', if an unfortunate prisoner', whom your policy', not pure justice' , is about to deliver into the hands of the...vindicate the principles by which he was actuated'? My lord', it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed... | |
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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 proposed ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations... 
