| John Stockdale, Joseph Gurney - Great Britain - 1790 - 252 pages
...might be diftorted into libels ; by forfaking the general context, and hanging a meaning upon felected parts : — Thus, as in the text put by Algernon Sidney, ** The fool has f«ud in his heart there is no «' God}" The Attorney General on the principle of the prefent proceeding... | |
| Crime and criminals - 1792 - 566 pages
...might be diftorted into libels j by forfeiting the general context, and hanging a meaning upon fele&ed parts : Thus, as in the text put by Algernon Sidney, " The fool has faid in his heart there is no God ;" The Attorney General on the principle of the prefent proceeding... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...works upon government, the most excellent books of science, the sacred scriptures themselves, might be distorted into libels, by forsaking the general...The fool has said in his heart there is no God." The attorney general on the principle of the present proceeding against pamphlet, might indict the publisher... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...works upon govern, ment, the most excellent books of science, the sacred scriptures themselves, might be distorted into libels, by forsaking th^e general...The fool has said in his heart there is no God." The attorney general on the principle of the present proceeding against this pamphlet, might indict the... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 468 pages
...is no libel, to impute such imagination to a fool : but if the whole verse had been indicted, viz. " the fool has said in his heart there is no God :" the jury on the principle contended for, would be restrained from the same judgment of its legality, but... | |
| Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...works upon government, the most excellent books of science, the sacred Scriptures themselves, might be distorted into libels ; by forsaking the general...fool has said in his heart, There is no God ;" the Attorney General, on the principle of the present proceeding against this pamphlet, might indict the... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...works upon government, the most excellent books of science, the sacred Scriptures themselves, might be distorted into libels; by forsaking the general...fool has said in his heart. There is no God ;" the Attorney General, on the principle of the present proceeding against this pamphlet, might indict the... | |
| Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - Forensic orations - 1810 - 420 pages
...is no libel, to impute such imagination to a fool : but if the whole verse had been indicted, viz. " The fool has said in his heart, There " is no God ;" the Jury, on the principle contended for, would be restrained from the same judgment of its legality, and... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 412 pages
...no libel, to impute such imagination to a fool : but if the whole verse had been, indicted, viz. " The fool has said in his heart, There " is no God ;" the Jury, on the principle contended> for, would be restrained from the same judgment of its legality,... | |
| James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...works upon government, the most excellent books of science, the sacred Scriptures themselves, might be distorted into libels; by forsaking the general...Sidney, " The " fool has said in his heart, There is no God ;" th£ Attorney General, on the principle of the present proceeding against this pamphlet, might... | |
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