They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书.He supplicated the king for clemency.他恳求国王开恩.Seventeen prisoners held on death row are to be executed after their pleas for clemency were turned down.17名死...
汤姆·潘恩在18世纪90年代教育平民激进分子时论述到，如果不是为了实现王公、外交官和士兵借发起战争而使自己富有的潜在利益，人类本会生活在和谐之中。In the 1790s Tom Paine taught plebeian radicals that mankind would live in harmony were it not for the vested interest which princes, diplomats and...