 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy : for there must be guilt somewhere, — whether in the...catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my Lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...sentence of the law which delivers over my body to the executioner, consigns my character to obloquy. A man in my situation has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, but also the difficulties of prejudice. While the man dies, his memory lives, and that mine may not... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy ; for there must be guilt somewhere ; whether in the sentence...catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds... | |
 | Irish orations (English) - 1857 - 564 pages
...silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur: but the sentence of law which delivers my body to the executioner, will, through the ministry...of the court or in the catastrophe, posterity must 46 541 determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune,... | |
 | A member of the bar - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1857 - 562 pages
...the ministry of that law, labour in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy — for there must be guilt somewhere : whether in the sentence of the court or in the catastrophe, posterity mui-t 46 5,11 \| determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy : for there must be guilt somewhere ; whether in the sentence...not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, but those of established prejudice. The man dies, but his memory lives. That mine may not perish, that... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy; for there must be guilt somewhere, — whether in the...catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...sentence of the Court, or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my Lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune,...power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated, bat the difficulties of established prejudice : — the man dies, but his memory lives : that mine... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy ; for there must be guilt somewhere ; whether in the sentence...catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor in its own vindication to consign my character to obloquy 3, for there must be guilt somewhere ; whether in the sentence...court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. 3. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port; when my shade shall have joined the bands... | |
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I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur. But the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy... 
