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... answer the medical hypotheses ( they de- serve no better name ) , which have been forced upon our attention . In the first place then , the want of swelling at the time of examination , as was asserted by the doc- tors , was a ...
... answer the medical hypotheses ( they de- serve no better name ) , which have been forced upon our attention . In the first place then , the want of swelling at the time of examination , as was asserted by the doc- tors , was a ...
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... answer is plain - the parts were DEAD . The violence of the beating had in some measure , at any rate , destroyed their vitality ; this is therefore a proof of the severity , not the mildness of the punishment . But they say " there was ...
... answer is plain - the parts were DEAD . The violence of the beating had in some measure , at any rate , destroyed their vitality ; this is therefore a proof of the severity , not the mildness of the punishment . But they say " there was ...
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... answers filed ; but , in con- sequence of the absence of witnesses in support of the impeachment , and other technical grounds of delay , the ( 27 ) trial was not fairly entered upon until December 21st , JUDGE PORTER'S CASE. ...
... answers filed ; but , in con- sequence of the absence of witnesses in support of the impeachment , and other technical grounds of delay , the ( 27 ) trial was not fairly entered upon until December 21st , JUDGE PORTER'S CASE. ...
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... answers , would occupy more space than is consistent with the prescribed limits of this volume ; and as an attempted condensation of them would require scarcely less space ; the Editor , by way of presenting the main features of this ...
... answers , would occupy more space than is consistent with the prescribed limits of this volume ; and as an attempted condensation of them would require scarcely less space ; the Editor , by way of presenting the main features of this ...
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... rather than boast so far , through me , he challenges the strictest and severest ordeal . Prior to entering upon our answer to Per- those charges , to which I have thus generally adverted IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE PORTER . 31.
... rather than boast so far , through me , he challenges the strictest and severest ordeal . Prior to entering upon our answer to Per- those charges , to which I have thus generally adverted IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE PORTER . 31.
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Page 33 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Page 107 - A conspiracy, it is said,f consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more, to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.
Page 279 - My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have uttered : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 182 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 359 - The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted, is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth : a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath administered in a court of justice.
Page 10 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 50 - tis too late. Lucio. [To ISAB.] You are too cold. Isab. Too late ? why, no ; I, that do speak a word, May call it back again ° : Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Page 33 - The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil injuries, seems principally to consist in this: that private wrongs, or civil injuries, are an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals...
Page 248 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 313 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.