 | Alvin Victor Sellers - Trials - 1919 - 318 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to 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 purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Revolutionaries - 1915 - 784 pages
...loaded with the foul and grievous^ calumny of being an emissary of French tyranny and French depotism? My lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice...scaffold's terrors would be the imputation of having been the agent of the despotism and ambition of France; and whilst I have breath I will call upon my countrymen... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 880 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated? 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... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 876 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated? 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... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - Catholic emancipation - 1880 - 560 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated? 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... | |
 | Patrick M. Geoghegan - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 pages
...the heart of his conception of what the rebellion had attempted, and therefore his entire character: My lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind to humiliation to meet the ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame or the... | |
 | Stephen Regan - Literary Collections - 2004 - 628 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to 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 ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the purposed shame of the scaffold's terrors... | |
 | William Safire - Reference - 2004 - 1168 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated? 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,... | |
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... of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this court. You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit. 
