 | John Wilson Croker - 1857 - 598 pagine
...rare, and certainly never executed where there was any possible room for mercy. The executions, too, when forced upon him, took place at early hours and...? ' The word Guillotine,' says the author of ' Les Pastes de I'Anarchie,' ' should be effaced from the language.' But the revolutionary horrors which... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pagine
...rare, and certainly never executed where there was any possible room for mercy. The executions, too, when forced upon him, took place at early hours and...? "The word Guillotine," says the author of " Les Pastes de 1'Anarchie, " "should be effaced from the language." But the revolutionary horrors which... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 pagine
...rare, and certainly never executed where there was any possible room for mercy. The executions, too, when forced upon him, took place at early hours and...from the history of mankind ? " The word Guillotine, B says the author of « Les Pastes de 1'Anarchie," "should be effaced from the language." But the revolutionary... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 488 pagine
...rare, and certainly never executed where there was any possible room for mercy. The executions, too, when forced upon him, took place at early hours and...mankind? " The word Guillotine," says the author of " Les Pastes de 1'Anarchie," " should be effaced from the language." But the revolutionary horrors which... | |
 | 1844 - 622 pagine
...places ; and every humane art is used to cover the operations of the fatal instrument with a decent veil, not only from motives of general decency and...guillotine could be blotted from the history of mankind, and who can have such feelings in so powerful a combination as Louis Philippe, now KING of the French,... | |
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Guillotine must have been an object of the most painful contemplation, sentences of death were also very rare, and certainly never executed where there was any possible room for mercy. The executions, too, when forced upon him, took place at early hours... 