The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, Before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855 |
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... Sir Edward Coke was promoted rapidly enough , whilst wholly subservient to the despotic court , but afterwards , though a miracle of legal knowledge , not equalled yet perhaps , he must not be appointed Lord Chancellor on account of ...
... Sir Edward Coke was promoted rapidly enough , whilst wholly subservient to the despotic court , but afterwards , though a miracle of legal knowledge , not equalled yet perhaps , he must not be appointed Lord Chancellor on account of ...
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... Lord Chancellor , in a tyrant's court , ready to enact iniquity into law . His compliance with the King's desire to violate the first prin- ciple of Magna Charta , " endeared him to the Court , and secured him further preferment as soon ...
... Lord Chancellor , in a tyrant's court , ready to enact iniquity into law . His compliance with the King's desire to violate the first prin- ciple of Magna Charta , " endeared him to the Court , and secured him further preferment as soon ...
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... Lord Chancellor ! Wright , nearly as infamous , miraculously stupid and ignorant , detected swindler , knighted and clothed in ermine , took his place among the twelve judges of England . " 4 He also was made Chief Justice successively ...
... Lord Chancellor ! Wright , nearly as infamous , miraculously stupid and ignorant , detected swindler , knighted and clothed in ermine , took his place among the twelve judges of England . " 4 He also was made Chief Justice successively ...
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... Lord Chancellor and elevated to the peerage in 1778 ! Him also we shall meet again . Gentlemen of the Jury , I might as well try to bale all the salt water out of the sea as to mention every glaring and notorious in- stance where an ...
... Lord Chancellor and elevated to the peerage in 1778 ! Him also we shall meet again . Gentlemen of the Jury , I might as well try to bale all the salt water out of the sea as to mention every glaring and notorious in- stance where an ...
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... Lord Chancellor of England , and sat on the woolsack in the House of Lords . His chief panegyrist can only say , " in worse times there have been worse chancellors . " " But an age of comparative freedom and refinement has rarely ...
... Lord Chancellor of England , and sat on the woolsack in the House of Lords . His chief panegyrist can only say , " in worse times there have been worse chancellors . " " But an age of comparative freedom and refinement has rarely ...
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Page 195 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 148 - That the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land...
Page 105 - A Government in every country should be just like a Corporation,* and in this country it is made up of the landed interest which alone has a right to be represented.
Page 191 - Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
Page 96 - Gentlemen, you shall not be dismissed till we have a verdict that the court will accept, and you shall be locked up without meat, drink, fire, and tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it.
Page 119 - I discharged every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity, as absolute and as palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image...
Page 161 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Page 132 - Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering; but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Page 31 - Pollexfen gently reminded the court that his late majesty had thought Baxter deserving of a bishopric. "And what ailed the old blockhead then," cried Jeffreys, "that he did not take it?
Page 111 - I hope will not be taken amiss of me to say in this place, to wit, the practice of informations for libels is a sword in the hands of a wicked king, and an arrant coward to cut down and destroy the innocent; the one cannot, because of his high station, and the other dares not, because of his want of courage, revenge himself in another manner.