 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1905 - 836 páginas
...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... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1865 - 1020 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1906 - 718 páginas
..." 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... | |
 | 1904 - 766 páginas
...the wise Johnson sagely argued were necessary in order to justify the infliction of such a penalty. "Executions are intended to draw spectators, If they...draw spectators they don't answer their purpose." The poor Turk's execution was witnessed only by a few officers of the law. What intensified the popular... | |
 | Alfred Marks - 1908 - 358 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
