 | George H. Knox - 1905 - 324 pages
...prejudiced against him, and who reluctantly allowed him to make his own defence. "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 proposed shame, or the scaffold's... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 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 purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the purposed shame or the scaffold's terrors... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 280 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,... | |
 | Alvin Victor Sellers - 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 - 1915 - 784 pages
...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 to bow a man's...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 not to... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 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... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 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... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - 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 - 2002 - 388 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
