 | 1878 - 596 페이지
...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 ?' Boswell expresses his perfect agreement with the sage, adding : ' Magistrates, both in London and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 페이지
..." 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 658 페이지
...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...is all this to be swept away ? " I perfectly agree 1 The Hon. Horace Walpole, now Earl of Orford, thus bears testimony to this gentleman's merit as a... | |
 | Edmund Frederick Du Cane - 1885 - 252 페이지
...from the fury of innovation. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 페이지
...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...parties; the publick was gratified by a procession 3 ; the criminal WELL. Chambers was the architect of Somerset House. See ante, p. 60, note 7. ' The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 페이지
...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...satisfactory to all parties; the publick was gratified by a procession3; the criminal WELL. Chambers was the architect of Somerset House. See ante, p. 60, note... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 페이지
...the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to drawspectators. If they do not draw spectators they don't answer their...satisfactory to all parties; the publick was gratified by a procession3; the criminal WELL. Chambers was the architect of Somerset House. See ante, p. 60, pote... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 페이지
..." 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 페이지
..." 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...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... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1889 - 756 페이지
..." it is not an improvement : they oLject 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 l>ys 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... 
