 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 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... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 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... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. 
