 | 1856 - 504 pages
...age." It may be doubted if he was ever so much in bis element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending...were shocked.* Yet this was not from cruelty, for * " As Lord Braxfield once said to an eloquent culprit at the bar — ' Ye're a vera clever chiel,... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1856 - 468 pages
...ceased. It may be doubted if he was ever so much in his element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending...strong and too jovial, but from cherished coarseness. This union of talent with a passion for rude predomination, exercised in a very discretionary court,... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1856 - 462 pages
...ceased. It may be doubted if he was ever so much in his element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending...strong and too jovial, but from cherished coarseness. This union of talent with a passion for rude predomination, exercised in a very discretionary court,... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Lothian) History - 1856 - 496 pages
...ceased. It may be doubted if he was ever so much in his element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending...shocked.* Yet this was not from cruelty, for which * " As Lord Braxfield once said to an eloquent culprit at the .bar—' Ye're a vera clever chiel, man,... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1856 - 494 pages
...ceased. It may be doubted if he was ever so much in his element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending...chuckle the more from observing that correct people were shocked.0 Yet this was not from cruelty, for which * " As Lord Braxfield once said to an eloquent culprit... | |
 | Baptists - 1857 - 692 pages
...and a low, growling voice, he was never so much in his element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending...Botany Bay or the gallows, with an insulting jest. In political trials he was the rival of Jeffreys. "Let them bring me prisoners, and I'll find them... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 374 pages
...disgrace to the age. He would tauntingly repel the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and send him to Botany Bay, or the gallows, with an insulting...observing that correct people were shocked. " Yet," says Cockburn, " this was not from cruelty, for which he was too strong and too jovial, but from cherished... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 390 pages
...he would chuckle the more from observing that correct people were shocked. " Yet," says Cockburn, " this was not from cruelty, for which he was too strong and too jovial, but from cherished coarseness." In the political trials of 1793 and 1794, "he was the Jeffreys of Scotland." " Let them bring me prisoners,... | |
 | lord Henry Thomas Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1872 - 426 pages
...ceased. It may be doubted if he was ever so much in his element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending...strong and too jovial, but from cherished coarseness. This union of talent, with a passion for rude predomination, exercised in a very discretionary court,... | |
 | Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1882 - 354 pages
...jocularity. It may be doubted if he was ever so much in his element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending him to Botany Bay or to the gallows with an insulting jest — over which he would chuckle the more from observing that... | |
| |
It may be doubted if he was ever so much in his element as when tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a wretched culprit, and sending him to Botany Bay or the gallows with an insulting jest ; over which he would chuckle the more from observing... 
