The Forensic Speeches of David Paul Brown: Selected from Important Trials, and Embracing a Period of Forty Years |
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... death , it is a subject of regret to the compiler , which will perhaps be shared by the reader , that the selections embraced in the following pages , were not in any way indicated by the deceased . That responsibility , therefore ...
... death , it is a subject of regret to the compiler , which will perhaps be shared by the reader , that the selections embraced in the following pages , were not in any way indicated by the deceased . That responsibility , therefore ...
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... to say , that men who have spent a considerable part of their lives in the slaughter - house of their species , surrounded by all the imagery of death and disaster , 2 BINNS ' CASE . 17 But to recur to our proposed arrangement. You must ...
... to say , that men who have spent a considerable part of their lives in the slaughter - house of their species , surrounded by all the imagery of death and disaster , 2 BINNS ' CASE . 17 But to recur to our proposed arrangement. You must ...
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... death and disaster , are at least , not those whose opinion should govern in the construction of this case . If a doctor were called upon to define a " battery " , he would no doubt consider it the loss or injury of some vital part of ...
... death and disaster , are at least , not those whose opinion should govern in the construction of this case . If a doctor were called upon to define a " battery " , he would no doubt consider it the loss or injury of some vital part of ...
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... death for days — their arms , their legs torn away - why is this ? the current of life may be exhausted in a single hour , why then this lingering ? because the vitality of the parts is so destroyed as to prevent the exercise of their ...
... death for days — their arms , their legs torn away - why is this ? the current of life may be exhausted in a single hour , why then this lingering ? because the vitality of the parts is so destroyed as to prevent the exercise of their ...
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... death of the illustrious Mr. Chamberlain , in a mauner scarcely less deplorable or infamous than that of suicide - A tailor killed by the untimely explosion of — a pair of pantaloons ! I have no more inclination , though much more cause ...
... death of the illustrious Mr. Chamberlain , in a mauner scarcely less deplorable or infamous than that of suicide - A tailor killed by the untimely explosion of — a pair of pantaloons ! I have no more inclination , though much more cause ...
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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.