| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 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... | |
| Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated? 12. 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, t>r the scaffold's... | |
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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 ignomy of the scaffold— but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 pages
...posterity must determine. [Lord Norbury, one of the judges. Interrupted the speaker.] 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... | |
| English literature - 1887 - 958 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which ho 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 *:-aOblil; but worse to me than the purposed shame or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - Ireland - 1888 - 472 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... | |
| Alexander Martin Sullivan - Ireland - 1892 - 686 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 of the scaffold's terror... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 462 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... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 562 pages
...clearly 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... | |
| English Orators - 1900 - 558 pages
...clearly 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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