The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, Volume 3F. D. Linn, 1878 - Great Britain |
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... passed the act declaring that the two Houses of Parliament have the right to publish whatever they deem necessary for the information of the community without the danger of an action or indictment against their officers . He succeed ed ...
... passed the act declaring that the two Houses of Parliament have the right to publish whatever they deem necessary for the information of the community without the danger of an action or indictment against their officers . He succeed ed ...
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... passed to punish mutiny , and to subject them to a particular discipline , they could not be punished for any military offense , and they were only amenable to the same laws as the rest of the King's subjects The Recordership of London ...
... passed to punish mutiny , and to subject them to a particular discipline , they could not be punished for any military offense , and they were only amenable to the same laws as the rest of the King's subjects The Recordership of London ...
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... passed with the Crown to King William and Queen Mary . He urged , with much sublety , that the grant had been made to the Crown of England during the life of an individual , and , therefore , while this individual survived , those ...
... passed with the Crown to King William and Queen Mary . He urged , with much sublety , that the grant had been made to the Crown of England during the life of an individual , and , therefore , while this individual survived , those ...
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... passing an act which , for the first time , allowed witnesses called for the prisoner to be examined upon oath . ' Holt's associates in the King's Bench were very respectable men , who had either been removed for their independence by ...
... passing an act which , for the first time , allowed witnesses called for the prisoner to be examined upon oath . ' Holt's associates in the King's Bench were very respectable men , who had either been removed for their independence by ...
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... passed " to hear the Lord Chief Justice as to this point , whether he did right in re- fusing to give an account to the Committee of his rea- sons for his judgment in the King's Bench , in relation to quashing the indictment for murder ...
... passed " to hear the Lord Chief Justice as to this point , whether he did right in re- fusing to give an account to the Committee of his rea- sons for his judgment in the King's Bench , in relation to quashing the indictment for murder ...
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Page 70 - And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Page 29 - If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it.
Page 381 - Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Page 393 - I thank God that I have been enabled to come here this day — to perform my duty, and to speak on a subject which has so deeply impressed my mind. I am old and infirm — have one foot, more than one foot, in the grave — I am risen from my bed, to stand up in the cause of my country — perhaps never again to speak in this House.
Page 377 - Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 237 - To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence,' As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death...
Page 393 - ... of my country, I would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this, unjust in its principle, impracticable in its means, and ruinous in its consequences, I would not contribute a single effort, nor a single shilling. I do not call for vengeance on the heads of those who have been guilty; I only recommend to them to make their retreat. Let them walk off; and let them make haste, or they may be assured that speedy and condign punishment will overtake them.
Page 368 - Our language has no term of reproach, the mind has no idea of detestation, which has not already been happily applied to you, and exhausted. — Ample justice has been done by abler pens than mine to the separate merits of your life and character. Let it be my humble office to collect the scattered sweets, till their united virtue tortures the sense.
Page 226 - Noble and young, who strikes the heart With every sprightly, every decent part ; Equal the injured to defend, To charm the mistress or to fix the friend ; He, with a hundred arts refined, Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind.
Page 110 - The only force that doth excuse is a force upon the person, and present fear of death ; and this force and fear must continue all the time the party remains with the rebels.