 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Emmet's rebellion, 1803 - 1854 - 552 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 proposed ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...system of angry justice to bow a man's mind, by humiliation, to the purposed ignominy of the sca£ fold; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of guch foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this Court. You, my Lord,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...tears of the widows which it has made. CXCV.— EMMBTT'S DEFENSE.— No. II. 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 scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 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 pur. posed shame of the scaffold's... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1862 - 472 pages
...loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of French tyranny and French despotism 1 My lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice...ignominy of the scaffold, but worse to me than the scaflbld's shame or the scaffold's terrors would be the imputation of having been the agent of the... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 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 proposed ignominy of the scaffold — but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...sublime defiance of unmerited obloquy and death, and then speak accordingly. 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 to me than the scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...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... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...sublime defiance of unmerited obloquy and death, and then speak accordingly. 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 to me than the scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's... | |
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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. 
