The Lives of Twelve Eminent Judges of the Last and of the Present Century, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - Judges |
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... evidence , and sought to be established by resolutions , letters , addresses to and from affiliated societies , in Edinburgh , Norwich , Sheffield , and elsewhere , by speeches of members , nay even toasts at anni- versary dinners of a ...
... evidence , and sought to be established by resolutions , letters , addresses to and from affiliated societies , in Edinburgh , Norwich , Sheffield , and elsewhere , by speeches of members , nay even toasts at anni- versary dinners of a ...
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... evidence may be useful to show the fearful pressure of the case , from which Erskine had to extricate his client . 6 A letter from the Corresponding Society , with corrections in Horne Tooke's hand - writing , contained the following ...
... evidence may be useful to show the fearful pressure of the case , from which Erskine had to extricate his client . 6 A letter from the Corresponding Society , with corrections in Horne Tooke's hand - writing , contained the following ...
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... evidence the turning over these volumes of sedi- tion - deserve especial notice . The first day was exhausted in the nine hours ' explanation of Sir John Scott , and the partial reading of papers found at Hardy's house . Not a word ...
... evidence the turning over these volumes of sedi- tion - deserve especial notice . The first day was exhausted in the nine hours ' explanation of Sir John Scott , and the partial reading of papers found at Hardy's house . Not a word ...
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... evidence before your Lordships , nor will I sit here silent to hear any act given in evidence that does not go to show the prisoner at the bar had that wicked compassing . When I stand here defending this man , who holds his life under ...
... evidence before your Lordships , nor will I sit here silent to hear any act given in evidence that does not go to show the prisoner at the bar had that wicked compassing . When I stand here defending this man , who holds his life under ...
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... evidence against him . " And , again : - " How is it possible I should convict witnesses of false- hood , if I cannot be allowed to extract from the witness who the person was to whom he made the communication , and who advised him to ...
... evidence against him . " And , again : - " How is it possible I should convict witnesses of false- hood , if I cannot be allowed to extract from the witness who the person was to whom he made the communication , and who advised him to ...
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Page 381 - And I stood upon the sand of the sea; and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Page 484 - I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Protestant Government, in the United Kingdom...
Page 117 - 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 42 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 99 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, A s God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 316 - If it were once understood that upon mutual disgust married persons might be legally separated, many couples who now pass through the world with mutual comfort, with attention to their common offspring and to the moral order of civil society, might have been at this moment living in a state of mutual unkindness, in a state of estrangement from their common offspring, and in a state of the most licentious and unreserved immorality. In this case, as in many others, the happiness of some individuals...
Page 33 - ... still, supported by confidence in the hour when all tears shall be wiped from the eyes of affliction, bearing the burden laid upon him by a mysterious Providence which he adores, and anticipating with exultation the revealed promises of his Creator, when he shall be greater than the greatest, and happier than the happiest of mankind.
Page 381 - And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they •worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast ? who is able to make war with him?
Page 315 - To vindicate the policy of the law is no necessary part of the office of a judge ; but if it were, it would not be difficult to show that the law in this respect has acted with its usual wisdom and humanity, with that true wisdom, and that real humanity, that regards the general interests of mankind. For though in particular cases the repugnance of the law to dissolve the obligations of matrimonial cohabitation may operate...
Page 6 - The Emperor of Russia is rendering himself obnoxious to his subjects by various acts of tyranny, and ridiculous in the eyes of Europe by his inconsistency.