pride-blinded

Updated: June 7, 2025

By a strong effort the doomed man mastered his agitation; his pale countenance lighted up with indignant fire, and firm and self-possessed, he thus replied to the fearful interrogatory: "Much could I say in the name, not of mercy, but of justice, why the sentence about to be passed on me should not be pronounced; but nothing, alas! that will avail me with you, pride-blinded ministers of death.

Samuel Warren - The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney