 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...country, to a 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...ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...country, to a 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...ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...motives 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...ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame, t>r the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...his motives 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
...catastrophe, 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 terrors,... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 958 pages
...his motives 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...mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the *:-aOblil; but worse to me than the purposed shame or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Ireland - 1888 - 472 pages
...the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of French tyranny and French despotism ? My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to meet the ignominy of the scaffold, but worse to me than the scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors,... | |
 | Alexander Martin Sullivan - Ireland - 1892 - 686 pages
...his motives 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...scaffold ; but worse to me than the purposed shame of the scaffold's terror would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 562 pages
...his motives 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...of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been made against me in this court. You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit. I am a man ;... | |
 | English Orators - 1900 - 558 pages
...his motives 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...of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been made against me in this court. You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit. I am a man ;... | |
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