 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? m. ^fY 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? in. 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 304 pages
...part of the system of angry |ustice, to bow a man's mindi by humiliation to meet the ignominy of Ihe scaffold ; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame,...agent of French despotism and ambition; and while 1 have breath, I will call upon my then, his fate could awaken the sympathy even of his foes, what... | |
 | John W. Burke - 1853 - 324 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 proposed shame 0r the scaffold's... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? m. 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... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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
...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 to bow a man's...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... | |
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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. 
