| Loyalist - France - 1803 - 344 pages
...part of the system qf angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to meet thf ignominy of tht; scaffold ; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame,...been the agent of French despotism and ambition; and v.lulc I have breath I will call upon my countrymen n6t to believe me guilty of so foul a crime against... | |
| Great Britain - 1803 - 390 pages
...loaded .with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emis» sarv of France ? " Mv Lords, it may be part of the .system of angry justice to bow a man's mind bv humiliation to. meet the ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the scaffold's sluunc, or... | |
| Crime - 1804 - 508 pages
...be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of l-.eing an emissary of France f My lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to meet the iguo-niny of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would... | |
| James Gordon - Ireland - 1805 - 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,... | |
| Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 508 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... | |
| Student of the Inner Temple, Thoamas Aldridge - Crime - 1811 - 506 pages
...the grave to give her independence — am I to he loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of heing an emissary of France ? My lords, it may he part of...scaffold's shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would he the imputation of having heen the agent of French despotism and amhition ; and while I have breath,... | |
| John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 354 pages
...motives sincerely and truly, to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? 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... | |
| John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 348 pages
...motives sincerely and truly, to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? My lord, if 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... | |
| Crime - 1815 - 706 pages
...to be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France ? My lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to meet the ignominj' of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame or the scaffold's terrors, would... | |
| C. H. Gifford - Europe - 1817 - 944 pages
...be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France ? " My lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice, to bow a man's...scaffold's terrors, would be the imputation of having been flic agent of French despotism and ambition ; and, while I have breath, I will call upon my countrymen... | |
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