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... Evidence - Instance nearly fatal to the victim Statistics of Capital Punishment Punishment of Death - Mr . EWART'S Motion to abolish MEHEMET ALI - Russian Intrigue Church Reform - Pluralities - Sinecures Rhemish Testament - Protestant ...
... Evidence - Instance nearly fatal to the victim Statistics of Capital Punishment Punishment of Death - Mr . EWART'S Motion to abolish MEHEMET ALI - Russian Intrigue Church Reform - Pluralities - Sinecures Rhemish Testament - Protestant ...
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... evidence he had ever heard at the bar of that House . The speech was subsequently published from the short - hand writer's notes . + It was about a year previous to this , that he was married to Miss Hull , niece of his late esteemed ...
... evidence he had ever heard at the bar of that House . The speech was subsequently published from the short - hand writer's notes . + It was about a year previous to this , that he was married to Miss Hull , niece of his late esteemed ...
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... evidence to affect the lives of the accused . Every one must see , that the most malignant species of forgery is that which is intended for the destruction of human life , and no terms can be too strong for its reprobation . Let us ...
... evidence to affect the lives of the accused . Every one must see , that the most malignant species of forgery is that which is intended for the destruction of human life , and no terms can be too strong for its reprobation . Let us ...
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... evidence to justify the depriving those persons of their liberty , and putting them on trial for their lives . In England they must have been discharged at once on being taken before a Magistrate , unless he were a Magistrate who ...
... evidence to justify the depriving those persons of their liberty , and putting them on trial for their lives . In England they must have been discharged at once on being taken before a Magistrate , unless he were a Magistrate who ...
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... evidence to ensure their own conviction . This fails , and then , as a last resort , the examinations so obtained are falsified , and the Counsel who detect and denounce the atrocious proceeding , and who bear their clients unscathed ...
... evidence to ensure their own conviction . This fails , and then , as a last resort , the examinations so obtained are falsified , and the Counsel who detect and denounce the atrocious proceeding , and who bear their clients unscathed ...
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Page 417 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page xxxii - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Page xliv - Muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust. But fairer wreaths are due — though never paid — To those who, posted at the shrine of Truth, Have fallen in her defence.
Page 276 - When a Prince to the fate of the Peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming, In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a Chief of the People should fall.
Page xxxii - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 456 - WHEREAS the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom.
Page 323 - ... whole he is taught, practice must also be the whole he will ever know ; if he be uninstructed in the elements and first principles upon which the rule of practice is founded, the least variation from established precedents will totally distract and bewilder him : ita lex...
Page 457 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page xxxii - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 437 - The good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger and...