The Important and Eventful Trial of Queen Caroline, Consort of George IV for "adulterous Intercourse" with Bartolomo Bergami, Parts 1-2 |
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... wish to shrink from inquiry , but would only be deemed to afford a renewed proof of the desire which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to express , to submit her own wishes to the authority of Parliament ; thereby entitling ...
... wish to shrink from inquiry , but would only be deemed to afford a renewed proof of the desire which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to express , to submit her own wishes to the authority of Parliament ; thereby entitling ...
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... wish to found any argument on state- ments which rested merely on public rumour , but he could not help alluding to one remarkable circumstance , and leaving it , connected with the others , for their lordships ' consideration . It was ...
... wish to found any argument on state- ments which rested merely on public rumour , but he could not help alluding to one remarkable circumstance , and leaving it , connected with the others , for their lordships ' consideration . It was ...
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... wish to know in general , whether to the best of the witness's recollection , they were , on this journey , contiguous , and had a direct communication with each other , or whether they were distant ? —They were more near than apart ...
... wish to know in general , whether to the best of the witness's recollection , they were , on this journey , contiguous , and had a direct communication with each other , or whether they were distant ? —They were more near than apart ...
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... . Mr Brougham declaimed any wish to interrupt the witness . He was always desirous to have his answer complete . The Lord - Chancellor replied , that he imputed no blame to the counsel , for the witness at the time had ( 74 )
... . Mr Brougham declaimed any wish to interrupt the witness . He was always desirous to have his answer complete . The Lord - Chancellor replied , that he imputed no blame to the counsel , for the witness at the time had ( 74 )
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... wish to know whether you applied to Schiavini to obtain this paper ? ( Mr. Brougham objected to this question . He contended it was not allowable , the paper itself not being evidence . ) The Lord Chancellor remarked , that what he ...
... wish to know whether you applied to Schiavini to obtain this paper ? ( Mr. Brougham objected to this question . He contended it was not allowable , the paper itself not being evidence . ) The Lord Chancellor remarked , that what he ...
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Page 475 - ... nature has not made us suitable to each other. Tranquil and comfortable society is, however, in our power ; let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that, and I will distinctly subscribe to the condition which you required, through Lady Cholmondeley, that even in the event...
Page 419 - Lordships — but surely of that it is scarcely necessary to remind you — that an advocate in the discharge of his duty knows but one person in all the world, and that person is his client. To save that client by all means and expedients, and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and...
Page 919 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 901 - Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard the wide circumference around. 'Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his...
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Page 5 - ... of the House of Commons, and sparing this House the painful necessity of those public discussions, which, whatever might be their ultimate result, could not but be distressing to her majesty's feelings — disappointing to the hopes of parliament — derogatory from the dignity of the crown — and injurious to the best interests of the empire.
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Page 419 - ... hazards and costs to other persons, and, among them, to him*self, is his first and only duty; and in performing this duty he must not regard the alarm, the torments, the destruction which he may bring upon others. Separating the duty of a patriot from that of an advocate^ he must go on reckless of consequences, though it should be his unhappy fate to involve his country in confusion.
Page 14 - If my life would have satisfied your Majesty, you should have had it on the sole condition of giving me a place in the same tomb with my child ; but, since you would send me dishonoured to the grave, I will resist the attempt with all the means that it shall please God to give me.
Page 869 - But to any man who could even be suspected of so base a practice as whispering calumnies to judges — distilling leprous venom into the ears of jurors — the Queen might well exclaim, ' Come forth, thou slanderer, and let me see thy face ! If thou would'st equal the respectability...