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... insanity in this world's view , absolutely and re- latively , was as much to be deplored as even that of crime itself . " You must have observed , gentlemen of the jury , that Mr. Gibbons occupied a considerable time upon this subject ...
... insanity in this world's view , absolutely and re- latively , was as much to be deplored as even that of crime itself . " You must have observed , gentlemen of the jury , that Mr. Gibbons occupied a considerable time upon this subject ...
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... insanity you spoke only the sentiment of your own excellent heart - let us apply the head to it . There is no criminality in insanity , it is true , and there ought to be no disgrace ; but the question is not what ought to be , but what ...
... insanity you spoke only the sentiment of your own excellent heart - let us apply the head to it . There is no criminality in insanity , it is true , and there ought to be no disgrace ; but the question is not what ought to be , but what ...
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... insanity . Thus you perceive while they deny the position assumed by my colleague , they essentially adopt it , as their excuse , for exacting from an alleged lunatic a deed of trust . I am amazed ! Brought up and educated among them ...
... insanity . Thus you perceive while they deny the position assumed by my colleague , they essentially adopt it , as their excuse , for exacting from an alleged lunatic a deed of trust . I am amazed ! Brought up and educated among them ...
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... insanity ; in- sanity shall spread undivided , and extend through the whole celestial system - and Heaven itself might be con- verted into a lunatic asylum . The soul , of which I have said the mind is a constitu- ent , is the immortal ...
... insanity ; in- sanity shall spread undivided , and extend through the whole celestial system - and Heaven itself might be con- verted into a lunatic asylum . The soul , of which I have said the mind is a constitu- ent , is the immortal ...
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... insanity . It is a new theory - who understands it - emotional in- sanity ! Has not your honor been astonished by this doc- trine ? Why it is like some of the French dancing ; it is like what Addison calls a " regular confusion ; " it ...
... insanity . It is a new theory - who understands it - emotional in- sanity ! Has not your honor been astonished by this doc- trine ? Why it is like some of the French dancing ; it is like what Addison calls a " regular confusion ; " it ...
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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.