A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 22Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1817 - Trials |
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... learned friend say - Why , this is an informa- tion against Mr. Bembridge for not doing that , which according to the state of the fact , he did that is , for returning this 48,7991 . 19s . 11d . , a charge upon lord Holland . Gentlemen ...
... learned friend say - Why , this is an informa- tion against Mr. Bembridge for not doing that , which according to the state of the fact , he did that is , for returning this 48,7991 . 19s . 11d . , a charge upon lord Holland . Gentlemen ...
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... learned friend , then , if he cannot produce a precedent to tell me upon what principle does it stand ? Says my learned friend , no man can doubt about it ; every man's understanding must teach him , that an officer in the public office ...
... learned friend , then , if he cannot produce a precedent to tell me upon what principle does it stand ? Says my learned friend , no man can doubt about it ; every man's understanding must teach him , that an officer in the public office ...
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... learned friend will tell you , if there be any process of law to compel that . sworn to the truth of it . Now , then , let us see the offence of Mr. Bembridge ; it consists in this ; Mr. Powell had delivered in many books of accounts ...
... learned friend will tell you , if there be any process of law to compel that . sworn to the truth of it . Now , then , let us see the offence of Mr. Bembridge ; it consists in this ; Mr. Powell had delivered in many books of accounts ...
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... learned friend would have stated me as their panegyrist , holding forth to the eyes of the public , the great and notable benefits that they have done . So much for that ; I will say nothing at all about their partialities , that at the ...
... learned friend would have stated me as their panegyrist , holding forth to the eyes of the public , the great and notable benefits that they have done . So much for that ; I will say nothing at all about their partialities , that at the ...
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... learned friend , with an air of great triumph , to be a matter that , however morally guilty he may be , there is no law against ; the law written in men's minds , may remonstrate pretty strongly against it , but my friend says , there ...
... learned friend , with an air of great triumph , to be a matter that , however morally guilty he may be , there is no law against ; the law written in men's minds , may remonstrate pretty strongly against it , but my friend says , there ...
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Popular passages
Page 293 - ... defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information.
Page 307 - ... the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information...
Page 469 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 387 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 215 - King there inhabiting and being, in contempt of our said lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 195 - Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law : but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy : who art thou that judgest another?
Page 473 - ... to the great scandal and contempt of our said lord the king and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said lord the king, his crown and dignity.
Page 411 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Page 387 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 435 - If any ask me what a free government is, I answer that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so; and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.