A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors: From the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 12Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 - Trials |
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... England sickly , but because monarchy hath poisoned the republic ; the Crown hath engrossed the Commons . - In Eng- land , a king hath little more to do than to make war , and give away places ; which in plain terms is , to impoverish ...
... England sickly , but because monarchy hath poisoned the republic ; the Crown hath engrossed the Commons . - In Eng- land , a king hath little more to do than to make war , and give away places ; which in plain terms is , to impoverish ...
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... England ; and where , even in the case of Woodfall , the Court unanimously refused to hold the ver- dict as an acquittal , but directed the informa- tion to be again tried . Nay , the counsel for the defendant did not even venture to ...
... England ; and where , even in the case of Woodfall , the Court unanimously refused to hold the ver- dict as an acquittal , but directed the informa- tion to be again tried . Nay , the counsel for the defendant did not even venture to ...
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... England was held by the judges at the present case ; though his opinion proceeded time of that decision , the jury were entitled to upon an erroneous view of the law of Eng- judge of nothing in the case of a libel , but land , which ...
... England was held by the judges at the present case ; though his opinion proceeded time of that decision , the jury were entitled to upon an erroneous view of the law of Eng- judge of nothing in the case of a libel , but land , which ...
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... England , which makes the publishing and selling of a libel a crime ; therefore , where there is a verdict of publishing , we must de- cide from the circumstances of the case ; and if the writing be very short , as a seditious handbill ...
... England , which makes the publishing and selling of a libel a crime ; therefore , where there is a verdict of publishing , we must de- cide from the circumstances of the case ; and if the writing be very short , as a seditious handbill ...
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... and feloniously exhort and advise several per- sons to purchase and peruse various seditious pamphlets and writings ; particularly the . " In England , a king hath little more to 117 ] [ 118 Proceedings against Thomas Muir . A. D. 1793 .
... and feloniously exhort and advise several per- sons to purchase and peruse various seditious pamphlets and writings ; particularly the . " In England , a king hath little more to 117 ] [ 118 Proceedings against Thomas Muir . A. D. 1793 .
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Page 507 - I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Page 507 - Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.
Page 27 - The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
Page 507 - But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth : and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
Page 27 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights; and these limits are determinable only by law.
Page 507 - How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross; thy wine mixed with water; thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Page 507 - As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Page 37 - In England a King hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to empoverish the nation and set it together by the ears.
Page 507 - And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Page 507 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.