The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence, Volume 17

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Owen Richards, 1853 - International law

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Page 4 - The second property of your excellent sherries is the warming of the blood, which before cold and settled left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice; but the sherries warms it, and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extreme.
Page 213 - tresses torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar pow'r foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 225 - The distinction between actions at Law and suits in Equity, and the forms of all such actions and suits heretofore existing, are abolished; and there shall be in this State hereafter but one form of action for the enforcement or protection of private rights and the redress of private wrongs, which shall be denominated a civil action.
Page 215 - Orb'd in a rainbow, and like glories wearing, Mercy will sit between, Thron'd in celestial sheen, With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering ; And Heaven, as at some festival, Will open wide the gates of her high palace Hall. 1
Page 213 - God of Palestine, And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers' holy shrine ; The Libyck Hammon shrinks his horn, In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz mourn. And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread
Page 121 - There is the moral of all human tales, "Tis but the same rehearsal of the past: First freedom, and then glory, when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last, And history with all her volumes vast Hath but one page.
Page 214 - Trampling the unshower'd grass with lowings loud : Nor can he be at rest Within his sacred chest; In Memphian grove or green, Nought but profoundest hell can be his shroud ; In vain with timbrell'd anthems dark, The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his
Page 249 - in any Court or before any person having, by Law or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, the parties thereto, and the persons in whose behalf any such
Page 244 - parties to a question in difference, which might be the subject of a civil action, may, without action, agree upon a case containing the facts upon which the controversy depends, and present a submission of the same to any Court which would have jurisdiction, if an action had been brought, it
Page 216 - under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.

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