Remarkable Trials of All Countries ...Diossy & Cockroft, 1867 - 464 Seiten |
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... things , men , cir- cumstances , in order that her courage might not be fruitless , nor her blood spilled in vain . The Girondists , Buzot , Salles . Pétion , Valady , Gorsas , Kervel- egan , Mollevault , Barbaroux , Louvet , Giroux ...
... things , men , cir- cumstances , in order that her courage might not be fruitless , nor her blood spilled in vain . The Girondists , Buzot , Salles . Pétion , Valady , Gorsas , Kervel- egan , Mollevault , Barbaroux , Louvet , Giroux ...
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... thing ; the suspicion of it came late to our knowledge . It would have been our duty to be prepared , had we known it in time ; but as we did not , and as it is a plea of great novelty , we hope the court will not think it unreasonable ...
... thing ; the suspicion of it came late to our knowledge . It would have been our duty to be prepared , had we known it in time ; but as we did not , and as it is a plea of great novelty , we hope the court will not think it unreasonable ...
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... thing . The second and the third parts were intended to be founded upon the statute of Charles II . , and also , I suppose , upon the subsequent statute , made to give it perpetuity , with certain additional requisites . The statute of ...
... thing . The second and the third parts were intended to be founded upon the statute of Charles II . , and also , I suppose , upon the subsequent statute , made to give it perpetuity , with certain additional requisites . The statute of ...
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... thing under a general description , and afterwards granted the partic- ular parts . What would be thought of a man who gave another his horse , and then said to the grantee , “ I also give you liberty to ride him when and where you ...
... thing under a general description , and afterwards granted the partic- ular parts . What would be thought of a man who gave another his horse , and then said to the grantee , “ I also give you liberty to ride him when and where you ...
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... thing , if a court of justice would pronounce a determination big with danger , if they said that an alien may find a bill of indictment involving the doctrine of allegi- ance . It is permitting him to intermeddle in a business of which ...
... thing , if a court of justice would pronounce a determination big with danger , if they said that an alien may find a bill of indictment involving the doctrine of allegi- ance . It is permitting him to intermeddle in a business of which ...
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Seite 361 - For his eyes are upon the ways of man, And he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Seite 365 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Seite 338 - ... others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay, separating even the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, and casting them, if need be, to the wind, he must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate it should unhappily be to involve his country in confusion for his client's sake...
Seite 353 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 65 - Vengeance, Irishmen ! vengeance on your oppressors! Remember what thousands of your dearest friends have perished by their merciless orders. Remember their burnings, their rackings, their torturings, their military massacres, and their legal murders. Remember Orr ! Mr.
Seite 424 - The consequence of this violence was not immediate death ; but his lordship, seeing the wretched victim still alive and sensible, though agonized with pain, felt a momentary motion of pity. He ordered his servants to convey Mr. Johnson up ^stairs to a bed, to send for a surgeon, and give immediate notice of the accident to the wounded man's family. When Mr. Johnson's daughter came to the house, she was met by the earl, who told her he had shot her father on purpose, and with deliberation. The same...
Seite 83 - God, or a future state, you cannot swear him. What swear him upon? Is it upon the book, or the leaf? You might as well swear him by a bramble, or a coin. The ceremony of kissing is only the external symbol, by which man seals himself to the precept, and says, "May God so help me, as I swear the truth.
Seite 64 - Let them find no quarter, unless they shall prove their repentance by speedily exchanging the standard of slavery for that of freedom, under which their former errors may be buried, and they may share the glory and advantages that are due to the patriot bands of Ireland. Many of the military feel the love of liberty glow within their breaats, and have joined the national standard.
Seite 423 - The earl had dismissed every person in the house upon various pretences, except three women, who were left in the kitchen. Johnson, advancing to the door of his apartment, was received by his lordship, who desired him to walk into another room, where he joined him in a few minutes, and then the door was locked on the inside. After a great deal of warm...
Seite 439 - I acknowledge being guilty of the death of poor Maria Marten, by shooting her with a pistol. The particulars are as follows: — When we left her father's house, we began quarrelling about the burial of the child, she apprehending that the place, wherein it was deposited, would be found out.