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... Lord Erskine , which has always guided the profession . Motives are beyond our inquiry - facts are not . The fact is , the prior receipt of a retainer from the traversers . Of the able and ex- perienced , Mr. Holmes alone was overlooked ...
... Lord Erskine , which has always guided the profession . Motives are beyond our inquiry - facts are not . The fact is , the prior receipt of a retainer from the traversers . Of the able and ex- perienced , Mr. Holmes alone was overlooked ...
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... officers were ob- stinate . " Oh , very well , " said the impetuous Mr. Whiteside ; " and now , my lords , we stand on our strict right . Clerk of the crown ! read the indictment and , as there are nine traversers 6 The Irish State Trials .
... officers were ob- stinate . " Oh , very well , " said the impetuous Mr. Whiteside ; " and now , my lords , we stand on our strict right . Clerk of the crown ! read the indictment and , as there are nine traversers 6 The Irish State Trials .
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... Lord Erskine to one of his cotemporaries , that " a rotten cause looks more convincing in his hands , than a sound one in the hands of another . " In the only great nisi prius cause in which we ever heard him , the Corporation of ...
... Lord Erskine to one of his cotemporaries , that " a rotten cause looks more convincing in his hands , than a sound one in the hands of another . " In the only great nisi prius cause in which we ever heard him , the Corporation of ...
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... Lord Eldon said of O'Connell ? The first time he appeared to argue in the House of Lords , there was great anxiety among the English lawyers to hear him , and even old Eldon shared in the excitement . He sat near one of the bishops ...
... Lord Eldon said of O'Connell ? The first time he appeared to argue in the House of Lords , there was great anxiety among the English lawyers to hear him , and even old Eldon shared in the excitement . He sat near one of the bishops ...
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... Lord Campbell's common law erudition did not prevent the acquittal of Earl Cardigan on the misdescription of a name , for we do not believe the voluntary omission . Sir William Follett passed over a miserable defect in the venue on the ...
... Lord Campbell's common law erudition did not prevent the acquittal of Earl Cardigan on the misdescription of a name , for we do not believe the voluntary omission . Sir William Follett passed over a miserable defect in the venue on the ...
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Page 17 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 376 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then, let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Page 17 - Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Page 376 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 145 - I chide the world-without-end hour, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour, When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought, Where you may be , or your affairs suppose...
Page 246 - THE healthy know not of their health, but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely corporeal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape soever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong.
Page 27 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 122 - They should neither have a precedency or priority of the other ; but that prayer and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation.
Page 47 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...
Page 87 - Voyages round the World, from the Death of Captain Cook to the present Time...