Thus David's clemency was fatal grown, While wealthy faction awed the wanting throne.

Clemency indeed was his strong point, and he extended it without stint again and again to his Irish rebels.

Clemency is an act of judgment, but pity disturbs the judgment.

Clemency, he says, is an habitual disposition to gentleness in the application of punishments.

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.

Clemency is an essential characteristic of the sage; pity is only suited for weak women and for diseased minds.