"Horridness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ancient and modern witchcraft, he could not shut his eyes to the atrocities daily committed under the name of justice. In his work on the Criminal Law of Scotland, published in 1678, he says, "From the horridness of this crime, I do conclude that, of all others, it requires the clearest relevancy and most convincing probature; and I condemn, next to the witches themselves, those cruel and too forward judges who burn persons by thousands as guilty of ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay |
