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" ... still exist by law; and their enforcement is not, even in these times, so unexampled as to make it at all incredible that they may some day be revived in full force. In the year 1857, at the summer assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate... "
The Legal Doctrine of Responsibility in Cases of Insanity, Connected with ... - Page 266
by Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - 1863 - 43 pages
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate man,* said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life, was sentenced to twenty-one months...for uttering, and writing on a gate, some offensive * Thomas Pooley, Bodmin Asaizes, July 31, 1857. In December following, he received a free pardon from...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate man,* said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life, was sentenced to twenty-one months...two separate occasions,! were rejected as jurymen, * Thomas Pooley, Bodmin Assizes, July 31, 1857. In December following, he received a free pardon from...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate man,* said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life, was sentenced to twenty-one months...two separate occasions,! were rejected as jurymen, # Thomas Pooler, Bodmin Assizes, July 31. 1857. In December following, he received a free pardon from...
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The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 3-4

1863 - 836 pages
...Essay on Liberty, by Mr. Mill, that " an unfortunate man, said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life was sentenced to twenty-one months'...gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity." J. Well, for my part, I think every man has a right to his opinion. S. And to the expression of that...
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On Liberty, Issue 57

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate man,* said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life, was sentenced to twenty-one months'...Old Bailey, two persons, on two separate occasions, f were * Thomaa Pooley, Bodmin Assizes, July 31, 1857. In Decemberfollowing, he received a free pardon...
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The Eagle: A Magazine Support by Members of St. John's College, Volume 4

1865 - 428 pages
...Essay on Liberty, by Mr. Mill, that " an unfortunate man, said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life was sentenced to twenty-one months'...gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity." J. Well, for my part, I think every man has a right to his opinion. S. And to the expression of that...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 7

Theology - 1869 - 404 pages
...disabilities of Atheists in this country, instancing the conviction and imprisonment of a man in Cornwall for uttering and writing on a gate some offensive words concerning Christianity ; and also the rejection as a juryman of a notorious atheistic advocate ; and then he proceeds to a...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 600 pages
...liberty, by taking under his philosophic patronage a poor monomaniac convicted at Bodmin assizes in 1857 ' for uttering and writing on a gate some offensive words concerning Christianity.' This conviction he cited as a more than ordinarily flagrant example of the infliction of legal penalties...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 596 pages
...liberty, by taking under his philosophic patronage a poor monomaniac convicted at Bodmin assizes in 1857 ' for uttering and writing on a gate some offensive words concerning Christianity.' This conviction he cited as a more than ordinarily flagrant example of the infliction of legal penalties...
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Individual liberty, legal, moral, and licentious; in which the political ...

George Vasey (miscellaneous writer.) - Liberty - 1877 - 200 pages
...of Cornwall, an unfortunate man [named Thos. PooleyJ, said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life, was sentenced to twenty-one months...uttering, and writing on a gate, some offensive words against Christianity. Within a month of the same time, at the Old Bailey, two persons [George Jacob...
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