 Tyburn had been discontinued, " executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators they do not answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties : the public was gratified by a procession, the criminal is...  The Chronicles of Newgate - Sivu 276tekijä(t) Arthur Griffiths - 1884 - 596 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1905 - 824 sivua
...Boswell's disgust, and Dr. Johnson observed: " The age is running mad. Men are to be hanged in a new way. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties;...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... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1906 - 718 sivua
...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 spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties: the public was gratified... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 sivua
...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 spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 730 sivua
...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 spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the publick was gratified... | |
 | Alfred Marks - 1908 - 358 sivua
...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 spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties : the public was gratified... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1913 - 470 sivua
...spectators. Sir, executions arc intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory...parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, and the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?"—Boswell's Johnson, iv. 204.... | |
 | William H. Loyd, William Henry Lloyd - 1910 - 312 sivua
...procession to Tyburn, Dr. Samuel Johnson remarked, in his vigorous manner, to Sir William Scott: "Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators' If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified... | |
 | Behramji Merwanji Malabari - 1910 - 530 sivua
...less an authority than Dr. Johnson denounced the change. "Executions," he observed quite seriously, "are intended to draw spectators; if they do not draw spectators they lose their reason. The old method was more satisfactory to all parties. The public was gratified by... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1910 - 426 sivua
...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 spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties: the public was gratified... | |
 | Norman Pearson - 1911 - 532 sivua
...executions attracted spectators they failed in their purpose. “The old method,” he insisted, “was satisfactory to all parties: the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it.” Truly a quaint argument! The highwayman's regard for his personal appearance... | |
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