Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period [1163] to the Present Time [1820].Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell R. Bagshaw, 1818 - Trials |
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... gentlemen , in whose judgment I place my life and fortune , not knowing the practice , or caring so much for the practice as I do for the law , which I have read with my eyes open , and the language is as intelligible to me as to any ...
... gentlemen , in whose judgment I place my life and fortune , not knowing the practice , or caring so much for the practice as I do for the law , which I have read with my eyes open , and the language is as intelligible to me as to any ...
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... gentlemen , detain you with any discussion of the law upon the sub- ject , because I take it to be so clear and plain , that if , according to your belief , the charge of a conspiracy to subvert the legislature , rule , and government ...
... gentlemen , detain you with any discussion of the law upon the sub- ject , because I take it to be so clear and plain , that if , according to your belief , the charge of a conspiracy to subvert the legislature , rule , and government ...
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... Gentlemen , as I stated to you , I attribute to the prisoner , and those with whom he was engaged , a conspiracy to effect a change in the sovereign power of the state , by their own force . That sovereign power , you well know ...
... Gentlemen , as I stated to you , I attribute to the prisoner , and those with whom he was engaged , a conspiracy to effect a change in the sovereign power of the state , by their own force . That sovereign power , you well know ...
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... Gentlemen , the prisoner at the bar , and those with whom I charge him to have con- spired , did not content themselves with simply endeavouring thus to destroy , in the minds of the people , their affection and attachment to the ...
... Gentlemen , the prisoner at the bar , and those with whom I charge him to have con- spired , did not content themselves with simply endeavouring thus to destroy , in the minds of the people , their affection and attachment to the ...
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... Gentlemen , I have no doubt of the consequence . I can have no sort of hesitation in my mind that every con- sequence of anarchy and confusion must arise from such a measure . Gentlemen , knowing that such a proposition would never be ...
... Gentlemen , I have no doubt of the consequence . I can have no sort of hesitation in my mind that every con- sequence of anarchy and confusion must arise from such a measure . Gentlemen , knowing that such a proposition would never be ...
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Page 959 - ... for doubtless most persons that are felons of themselves, and others, are under a degree of partial insanity when they commit these offences.
Page 959 - I can think of is this; such a person as labouring under melancholy distempers hath yet ordinarily as great understanding, as ordinarily a child of fourteen years hath, is such a person as may be guilty of treason or felony.