 | Geoffrey Abbott - 2004 - 248 páginas
...running mad after innovation! They object that the old method drew together a large 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... | |
 | Martin Levy - 2004 - 258 páginas
...an improvement on the scaffold at Tyburn, he objected. "No, Sir, ... it is not an improvement . . . executions are intended to draw spectators. If they...gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it."6 And Boswell agreed with him. The procession to Tyburn was public ritual on a grand scale, with... | |
 | Geoffrey Abbott - 2007 - 358 páginas
...the old method drew together too many spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw specta/ tors; If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer...old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public were gratified by a procession and the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 páginas
...they object, that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are mtended to draw spectators. If they do not 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... | |
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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... 
