AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Capital punishment.(Ryan)
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.
THE AUTHOR of those words was no sadistic voyeur, but Samuel Pepys, as humane and genial a man as ever lived. Clearly, his view of capital punishment differed a good deal from the heated criticism which has lately filled the Australian media. Indeed, from Pepys's description of the unlucky Harrison, perhaps even the condemned person saw things differently in those days.
As so often is the case when a truly serious question requires careful thought and calm debate, last month's ...
- Works of George Orwell: Life Of George Orwell
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Orwell, George January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Life Of George Orwell: In 1943, the year of Europe's...most hopeless year of this century, George Orwell published an essay called "Looking...significance for a consideration of the man George Orwell as well as his work. Orwell addresses...
- George Orwell's `Politics and the English Language'
- Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR) June 15, 1996 700+ words
...influential essays in the English language is George Orwell's essay, Politics and the English...in the English language appeared, George Orwell's Politics and the English Language...for inviting me. SCOTT SIMON: And, George Orwell, at this point, 50 years ago, had...
- George Orwell
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1996 George Orwell English writer George Orwell, pictured with a moustache, is best known for...writers. portraits. moustaches. English writer George Orwell, pictured with a moustache, is best known for...
- Orwell's Burmese enigma.(Books)(Finding George Orwell in Burma)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Policy Review Miller, Cheryl August 1, 2005 700+ words
EMMA LARKIN. Finding George Orwell in Burma. PENGUIN PRESS. 294...writing, taking the pen name George Orwell. In 1934, he published his first...experience in Burma. In her Finding George Orwell in Burma, "Emma Larkin" (a...
- Modesto Suarez / George Orwell.(Primera)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) July 17, 2003 700+ words
...animales son ms iguales que otros. George Orwell, Rebelin en la granja Este ao...celebramos el centsimo aniversario de George Orwell, escritor que con el nombre...otros grandes intelectuales, George Orwell decide incorporarse a las Brigadas...
- Works of George Orwell: Selected Biography
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Orwell, George January 1, 1963 700+ words
...1963 Selected Biography I. Works By George Orwell (Editions cited below should be easily...Works (Selected) Atkins, John. George Orwell: A Literary and Biographical Study...Animal Farm.) Brander, Laurence. George Orwell. New York: Longmans, Green and Co...
- George Orwell: politics, rhetoric, and the public intellectual.
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Humanities Clarke, Ben December 1, 2008 700+ words
...Obscure Writing") The position of George Orwell (1903-1950) as a public intellectual...him to preach the values he lived" (George Orwell 43). The concentration on a life...intelligentsia' as frequently as George Orwell" (350). As this implies, Orwell...
- George Orwell as an ally.
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Goodden, Herman September 1, 2003 700+ words
...celebrated novel, Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell (1903-50) described life in a dictatorial...claim that you've got the ghost of George Orwell in your comer, then the thinking goes...perspective as well. May I suggest that George Orwell could prove a very persuasive ally...
Source: HighBeam Research, Capital punishment.(Ryan)