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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... important part of his commen- tary on this statute is yet behind , which I shall presently read to you , and to which I implore your most earnest atten- VOL . II . C - tion , because I will show you by it LIFE OF LORD ERSKINE . 17.
... important part of his commen- tary on this statute is yet behind , which I shall presently read to you , and to which I implore your most earnest atten- VOL . II . C - tion , because I will show you by it LIFE OF LORD ERSKINE . 17.
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... important case , that had ever been sub- mitted to the judgment of a jury , since the passing of the statute of Edward , and in three hours returned the judicious verdict of acquittal . Even those who were most opposed to the principles ...
... important case , that had ever been sub- mitted to the judgment of a jury , since the passing of the statute of Edward , and in three hours returned the judicious verdict of acquittal . Even those who were most opposed to the principles ...
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... importance occurred about the same time , which I marvel has not appeared in evidence before you . A spy came into the society one night to see what he could collect , when there happened to be present a Mr. Gay , a man of large fortune ...
... importance occurred about the same time , which I marvel has not appeared in evidence before you . A spy came into the society one night to see what he could collect , when there happened to be present a Mr. Gay , a man of large fortune ...
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... importance to the cause of constitutional law . Even among those most opposed to him in politics might be numbered many who approved his positions , and rejoiced in the verdict . The dark and ensan- guined mass of clouds , which loomed ...
... importance to the cause of constitutional law . Even among those most opposed to him in politics might be numbered many who approved his positions , and rejoiced in the verdict . The dark and ensan- guined mass of clouds , which loomed ...
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... importance to the public , and in the British state trials everything should be found , which connects itself with the liberty and security of the people , in all courts of justice , which essentially depend upon the integrity and ...
... importance to the public , and in the British state trials everything should be found , which connects itself with the liberty and security of the people , in all courts of justice , which essentially depend upon the integrity and ...
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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.