 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...  The Early Courts of Pennsylvania - Página 132por William H. Loyd, William Henry Lloyd - 1910 - 287 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | V. A. C. Gatrell, Vic Gatrell - 1994 - 660 páginas
...abolition of the Tyburn procession: 'the old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the publick was gratified by a procession; the 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...supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away? " It was not only the procession that gratified the public. Most spectators took up positions at Tyburn... | |
 | 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...supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?' John Young The practice of including the time at which the condemned person should be hanged in Scottish... | |
 | 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...old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the publick was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it."6 And Boswell agreed 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...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 away?'... | |
 | 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,...supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?' I perfectly agree with Dr Johnson upon this head, and am persuaded that executions now, the solemn... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1902 - 1132 páginas
...Johnson, the sanest as well as the best man of his day, highly commended these public executions as " satisfactory to all parties. The public was gratified...by a procession, the criminal was supported by it." That the enjoyment was often mutual, it is impossible to deny. There was a world of meaning in the... | |
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