Word: pardoner
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Whether Blake was insane or a very great genius will, perhaps, never be decided. Yet, whatever he may have been, his art, whether poetic or decorative, is certainly strange and not over restrained. In fact his drawings have a technique which--pardon the confusion of arts--suggests the spirit of his verse; verse which is rather primitivistic and either a rough diamond of genius or semi-incoherent whisperings of incipient insanity as you choose to look at it. In any case they are out of the ordinary, and well worth a trip to the Boston Fine Arts Museum...
...asked "not for mercy, but for justice," not for pardon but for a public investigation to "set us free." Reviewing the trial, it listed a long series of incidents to show prejudice on the part of Trial Judge Thayer. Its most vital new evidence came in the attached affidavits...
...arrested for the pie episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides him. Soon the sheriff comes. In a ludicrous trial, Kit is ac quitted to the great discomfiture of ogreish District Attorney Sprinkle Kit's companions in theft get a pardon from the governor. Miss Siddons' madman reappears and is packed off to the asylum. Miss Siddons has her face fixed, her reputation mends slowly...
...first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers from the temple, 8) refusing the earthly crown of power, 9) resisting the temptation of Satan, 10) partaking of the Last Supper, 11) being tortured by the Roman centurions, 12) being condemned by the mob who chose Barabbas for pardon, 13) crucified, 14) hanging on the Cross while the earth is torn by melodramatic storm and quake, 15) rising from the tomb, 16) appearing again before the disciples...
...review matters, with which under our system of law the regular judicial machinery is incapable of dealing, differs in no essential respect from the appeal to the King's conscience out of which our present system of Equity has grown. Even if such a commission should rec commend a pardon it would not over-whelm or discredit the finding of the Court. The commission would, like the Chancellor's Court, fill in a gap which the common law has left open. The creation of a Court of Chancery has not exhausted the power of the Sovereign to do justice...