 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 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...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Horace Wyndham - 1927 - 360 páginas
...old method was the most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, 18 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... | |
 | Horace Wyndham - 1927 - 360 páginas
...old method was the most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, 18 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... | |
 | Frederick Emory Haynes - 1930 - 440 páginas
...alone were left. declared that "executions are intended to draw spectators; if they do not, they do not 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... | |
 | V. A. C. Gatrell, Vic Gatrell - 1994 - 660 páginas
...however. Not least of these was Dr Johnson when he lamented the abolition of the Tyburn procession: 'the old method was most satisfactory to all parties;...criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?'as This comment is usually taken to indicate bluff Augustan heartlessness. But its key word was... | |
 | Geoff Carter - 2000 - 254 páginas
...and those of other cultures and beliefs throughout our world of diversity and sad misunderstanding 'Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators....draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose.' Dr. Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson, Birkbeck Hill ed., Oxford, 1887, Vol. IV, p. 188. "There... | |
 | Patrick Pringle - 1953 - 336 páginas
...like Dr. Johnson. " They object that the old method drew together a number of spectators," he said. " 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... | |
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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... 
