 | Alfred Marks - 1908 - 358 Seiten
...eagerly), it is not an improvement : they object that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If...method was most satisfactory to all parties : the public was gratified by a procession : the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1908 - 420 Seiten
...sir, it is not an improvement ; they object that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If...method was most satisfactory to all parties : the public was gratified by a procession ; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1908 - 414 Seiten
...spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties : the public was gratified by a procession ; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ? " But the age was more progressive than Dr. Johnson, and 1783 did actually witness the last execution... | |
 | William H. Loyd, William Henry Lloyd - 1910 - 310 Seiten
...public procession to Tyburn, Dr. Samuel Johnson remarked, in his vigorous manner, to Sir William Scott: "Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators"...old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1910 - 426 Seiten
...chapter, Dr. Johnson protested against the removal of executions from Tyburn. "Executions," said the sage, "are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw...old method was most satisfactory to all parties: the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept... | |
 | William H. Loyd, William Henry Lloyd - 1910 - 312 Seiten
...spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?" Boswell's Life of Johnson, chapter 56. tinuance in office; but they shall receive no fees or perquisites... | |
 | Behramji Merwanji Malabari - 1910 - 530 Seiten
...less an authority than Dr. Johnson denounced the change. " Executions," he observed quite seriously, " are intended to draw spectators ; if they do not draw spectators they lose their reason. The old method was more satisfactory to all parties. The public was gratified by... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1912 - 342 Seiten
...eagerly,) it is not an improvement : they object that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If...supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ? " Of course the old fellow was only pulling young Boswell's leg. These were not his real opinions... | |
 | 1901 - 930 Seiten
..." it is not an improvement : they object that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If...old method was most satisfactory to all parties. The public was gratified by a procession ; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept... | |
 | John Marshall Gest - 1913 - 276 Seiten
...Men are to be hanged in a new way. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?" The celebrated George Selwyn never missed a hanging without some legitimate excuse. When Hackman was... | |
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It having been argued that this was an improvement.—" No, Sir," said he, eagerly, " it is not an improvement: they object, that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw... 
