 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1913 - 470 Seiten
...The old method was most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, and the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?" — Boswell's Johnson, iv. 204. J Denman, vol. ip 253, and vol. ii. p. 320. classes of convicts. To... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1913 - 478 Seiten
...The old method was most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, and the criminal was supported by it Why is all this to be sw1'pt away?" — Boswell's Johnson, iv. 204. 3 Denman, vol. ip 253, and vol. ii. p. 320. classes of... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1914 - 346 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... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - 1914 - 1088 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...they don't answer their purpose. The old method was satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, and the criminal was supported... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 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...Why is all this to be swept away?' I perfectly agree 1783l PRECISION IN EXPRESSION 487 with Dr. Johnson upon this head, and am persuaded that executions... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 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...it. Why is all this to be swept away?' I perfectly i with Dr. Johnson upon this head, and am persuaded that executions now, the solemn procession being... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1918 - 584 Seiten
...public executions have a bad effect upon public taste and morals? "Why no, sir," said Dr. Johnson; "executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators they do not answer their purpose. The old method is satisfactory to all parties. The public is gratified... | |
 | James Boswell - 1922 - 354 Seiten
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 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 Seiten
...Essayist, not Johnson the Talker. In argument he could uphold Tyburn, and even the procession to Tyburn : " Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If...supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ? " 1 But in The Rambler a it was a " dreadful procession " to a " legal massacre," and the spectators... | |
 | Horace Wyndham - 1927 - 360 Seiten
...they do not answer their purpose. The old method was the 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 ?" It was swept away because public opinion demanded that it should be swept away. But the demand 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... 
