 | 1860 - 1246 pages
...to execution without asking himself, Who knows whether this man is not :ess culpable than myself?" On the days when the prisons of this city are emptied...of the dreadful procession put the same question to lis own heart. Few among those that crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look ' with carelessness,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 328 pages
...happiness. The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution without asking himself, " Who knows whether this man is not less culpable than me 1" On the days when the prisons of this city are emptied into the grave, let every spectator of the... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 672 pages
...saying of "the learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave," that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution without asking himself, " Who knows whether...than me ?" On the days when the prisons of this city (wrote Johnson, in ante-penal-reform times) are emptied into the grave, let every spectator of the... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 pages
...saying of " the learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave," that he never saw a criminal dragged to .execution without asking himself, "Who knows whether...than me ? " On the days when the prisons of this city (wrote Johnson, in ante-penal-reform times) are emptied into the grave, let every spectator of the... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 358 pages
...culpable than me ? " On the days when the prisons of this city (wrote Johnson, in ante-penal-reform times) are emptied into the grave, let every spectator of...procession put the same question to his own heart. The ordinary of Newgate, writes Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, " preached to women who were to swing at... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 848 pages
...execution, is not less culpable than 1 ? On the day when the prisons of this city are emptied inlo the grave let every spectator of the dreadful procession put the same to his own heart. Few among those that crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1883 - 558 pages
...philanthropists, have since trodden into a highway of mercy and justice. He describes those dreadful days, " when the prisons of this city are emptied into the grave ; " when people " crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps with... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 470 pages
...— 'The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution without asking himself, " Who knows whether...are emptied into the grave, let every spectator of this dreadful procession put the same question to his own heart. Few among those that crowd in thousands... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...me?" On the days when the prisons of this city are emptied into the grave, let every spectator of this dreadful procession put the same question to his own heart. Few among those that crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps with triumph, on the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1889 - 296 pages
...will." The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution without asking himself, "Who knows " whether this man is not less culpable than me ? " l On the days when the prisons of this city are emptied into the grave, 2 let every spectator of... | |
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The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution without asking himself: 'Who knows whether this man is not less culpable than me?' On the days when the prisons of this city are emptied into the... 
