Report of the Trials of Alexander M. Sullivan and Richard Pigott, for Seditious Libels on the Government, at the County of Dublin Commission, Held at the Court-House, Green-Street, Dublin, Commencing February 10, 1868 ...: Reported for the Crown by J. Hill, Esq. An Also the Applications to the Court of Chancery, Book 38

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Alexander Thom, 1868 - Ireland - 286 pages

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Page 58 - ... and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 60 - Certificate has been signed with the Handwriting of the Person or Persons making the same, and whom it shall not be necessary to prove to be a Commissioner or Commissioners...
Page 17 - It shall not be necessary to state any venue in the Venue how to body of any indictment, but the County, City or other jurisdiction named in the margin thereof, shall be taken to be the venue for all the facts stated in the body of the indictment...
Page 67 - But alas for his country ! — her pride is gone by, And that spirit is broken, which never would bend ; O'er the ruin her children in secret must sigh, For 'tis treason to love her, and death to defend. Unpriz'd are her sons, till they've learned to betray ; Undistinguished they live, if they shame not their sires ; And the torch that would light them thro...
Page 58 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that/ soule was whose progeny they are...
Page 71 - LET Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her; When Malachi wore the collar of gold Which he won from the proud invader...
Page 59 - Officer by whom any such Declaration shall be kept according to the Directions of this Act, shall, upon Application in Writing made to them or him respectively by any Person requiring a Copy certified according to this Act of any such Declaration as aforesaid, in order that the same may be produced in any Civil or Criminal Proceeding, deliver such certified Copy or cause the same to be delivered to the Person applying for the same upon Payment of the Sum of One Shilling, and no more...
Page 13 - Indictment to be removed, by Writ of Habeas Corpus, to the Gaol of such next adjoining County; which Writ the said Court is hereby directed and authorized to issue, if such Defendant or Defendants be in the Prison of such City or Town Corporate ; and if he, she, or they be not in such Prison, to commit such Defendant or Defendants to the Gaol of such next adjoining County, and to cause the Prosecutors and Witnesses against such Defendant or Defendants, to enter into a Recognizance or Recognizances,...
Page 58 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Page 286 - Is not of grace but of right, and ought not to be denied to the subject when duly applied for, though at the request of either house of parliament.

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