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... ( Delivered at His Trial Before Lord Norbury , Dublin , September 19th , 1803 ) My Lords : I - AM asked what have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me , according to law . I have nothing to say that can alter your ...
... ( Delivered at His Trial Before Lord Norbury , Dublin , September 19th , 1803 ) My Lords : I - AM asked what have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me , according to law . I have nothing to say that can alter your ...
Page 2032
... deliver into the hands of the executioner , is not suffered to explain his motives sincerely and truly , and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? My lords , it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a ...
... deliver into the hands of the executioner , is not suffered to explain his motives sincerely and truly , and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated ? My lords , it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a ...
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... ( Delivered on the Prosecution of the Publisher of The Age of Reason ' for Blasphemy - Ranked by Erskine Himself as His Best Speech ) Gentlemen of the Jury : - THE HE charge of blasphemy , which is put upon the record against the ...
... ( Delivered on the Prosecution of the Publisher of The Age of Reason ' for Blasphemy - Ranked by Erskine Himself as His Best Speech ) Gentlemen of the Jury : - THE HE charge of blasphemy , which is put upon the record against the ...
Page 2057
... of the court that the book itself may now be delivered to you . Read it with at- tention , and as you shall find it , pronounce your verdict . HOMICIDAL INSANITY ( Exordium of the Speech in Defense of THOMAS , LORD ERSKINE 2057.
... of the court that the book itself may now be delivered to you . Read it with at- tention , and as you shall find it , pronounce your verdict . HOMICIDAL INSANITY ( Exordium of the Speech in Defense of THOMAS , LORD ERSKINE 2057.
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... Delivered Before the Court of King's Bench , June 26th , 1800 ) [ " Erskine's last and perhaps his greatest display of genius in defending a party prosecuted by the Crown . It is now , and ever will be , studied by medical men for its ...
... Delivered Before the Court of King's Bench , June 26th , 1800 ) [ " Erskine's last and perhaps his greatest display of genius in defending a party prosecuted by the Crown . It is now , and ever will be , studied by medical men for its ...
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Page 2066 - ... is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 2077 - ... 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 2202 - Truth crushed to earth, will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers: But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.
Page 2236 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 2253 - Though we differ in faith, thank God there is one platform on which we stand united, and that is the platform of charity and benevolence.
Page 2045 - And all the rule, one empire ; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable ; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest : then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Page 2245 - Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, "because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!
Page 2073 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 2077 - ... it argues in what good plight and constitution the body is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and...
Page 2395 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, * neither shall fruit be in the vines. The labor of the olive shall fail, * and the fields shall yield no meat ; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, * and there shall be no herd in the stalls : Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, * I will joy in the God of my salvation.