The remainder of my life shall be employed in expiating this single fault, and your lenity will bring back a soul to heaven! '
我的余生将用来弥补这一过错,您的宽容将把一个灵魂带回天堂!
为奴十二年
Grateful for the lenity shown them, and in order in some measure to repay it, they could do no less, of course, than pilot me to the melon-patch.
感谢他们表现出的宽容, 为了在某种程度上报答它,他们当然可以做同样的事情, 而不是带我去西瓜地。
为奴十二年
If Epps was present, I dared not show any lenity, not having the Christian fortitude of a certain well-known Uncle Tom sufficiently to brave his wrath, by refusing to perform the office.
He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering.
They followed her injunctions to the very letter, and were fully persuaded that to treat me with lenity, or to show the least pity for my woes, would be a direct means to destroy my chance for salvation.
" What passed in Boston, " exclaimed the great jurist, Lord Mansfield, " is the overt act of High Treason proceeding from our over lenity and want of foresight." The crown and Parliament were united in resorting to punitive measures.