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... manner of writing at different periods . The papers of the prefent age will fuffer no difgrace from a comparifon with thofe of the paft ; and it gives me pleasure to reflect , that though this work , from its nature , can confer no ...
... manner of writing at different periods . The papers of the prefent age will fuffer no difgrace from a comparifon with thofe of the paft ; and it gives me pleasure to reflect , that though this work , from its nature , can confer no ...
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... manner to the guard- house , upon a verbal order from a magiftrate , given because fome of the company who were drunk had made a great noife , and talked ob- fcenely from the windows , fo as to gather a mob on the Sabbath - day , A ...
... manner to the guard- house , upon a verbal order from a magiftrate , given because fome of the company who were drunk had made a great noife , and talked ob- fcenely from the windows , fo as to gather a mob on the Sabbath - day , A ...
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... manner of drawing indictments , which took place foon after the Restoration , contributed not a little to smooth . the way for its progrefs . Anciently libels or indictments were conceived in very general terms . While this practice ...
... manner of drawing indictments , which took place foon after the Restoration , contributed not a little to smooth . the way for its progrefs . Anciently libels or indictments were conceived in very general terms . While this practice ...
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... the faid crimes of incest and " bestiality being fo horrid , and against nature and humanity itself , are and ought to be exemplarily ' punishable , in fuch a way and A 66 manner manner as is fuitable to fo high and heinous abominations.
... the faid crimes of incest and " bestiality being fo horrid , and against nature and humanity itself , are and ought to be exemplarily ' punishable , in fuch a way and A 66 manner manner as is fuitable to fo high and heinous abominations.
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... manner as is fuitable to fo high and heinous abominations : Ne- " vertheless , " & c . Then it charges him , ft , With attempting to defile his fifter- german Jean , when fhe was but ten years of age ; and that there- after , when she ...
... manner as is fuitable to fo high and heinous abominations : Ne- " vertheless , " & c . Then it charges him , ft , With attempting to defile his fifter- german Jean , when fhe was but ten years of age ; and that there- after , when she ...
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Page 431 - ... and the like. But I take these to be one and the same thing. For the authority of these maxims rests entirely upon general reception and usage: and the only method of proving, that this or that maxim is a rule of the common law, is by showing that it hath been always the custom to observe it.
Page 354 - ... said realm of England, dominion of Wales or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or any of the...
Page 383 - October 1828, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of...
Page 612 - I do believe in my conscience, that the Person Pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James, and since his decease, pretending to be and taking upon himself the...
Page 353 - ... of this kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed...
Page 436 - ... pear, till it burft out at once to confume me and my children ? " Better it were to live under no law at all, and, by the maxims of *' cautious prudence, to conform ourfelves the beft we can to the ar...
Page 297 - An Act to explain and amend the Laws touching the Elections of Members to serve for the Commons in Parliament for that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and to restrain the Partiality and regulate the Conduct of Returning Officers at such Elections.
Page 418 - WHEREAS it is found by experience, that the laws already in being have not been sufficient to prevent corrupt and illegal practices in the election of members to serve in parliament...
Page 436 - Christians did their books of curious arts, and betake yourselves to the plain letter of the statute, which tells you where the crime is, and points out to you the path by which you may avoid it.
Page 436 - It is now full two hundred and forty years since treasons were defined ; and so long has it been since any man was touched to this extent upon this crime, before myself. We have lived, my lords, happily to ourselves, at home : we have lived gloriously abroad to the world : let us be content with what our fathers have left us : let not our ambition carry us to be more learned than they were, in these killing and destructive arts.