 | James Boswell - 1852
...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
...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
...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
..." 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
...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... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1908 - 397 oldal
...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 - 397 oldal
...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 - 1910 - 287 oldal
...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 - 388 oldal
...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... | |
 | William H. Loyd - 1910 - 287 oldal
...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's Life of Johnson, chapter 56. tinuance in office; but they shall receive no fees or perquisites... | |
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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... 
