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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... present governments in Europe but a scene of iniquity and oppression ? What is that of England ? — do not its own inhabitants say it is a market where every man has his price , and where corruption is common traffic at the expense of a ...
... present governments in Europe but a scene of iniquity and oppression ? What is that of England ? — do not its own inhabitants say it is a market where every man has his price , and where corruption is common traffic at the expense of a ...
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... present to the said lords , a petition in the names of the said The lord justice clerk , and lords commis - William Johnston , esq . , Dr. Francis Home , sioners of justiciary , having considered the fore- and Mr. James Campbell ...
... present to the said lords , a petition in the names of the said The lord justice clerk , and lords commis - William Johnston , esq . , Dr. Francis Home , sioners of justiciary , having considered the fore- and Mr. James Campbell ...
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... present at one meeting of this society of the Friends of the People on the 29th October last ; and if the charge is ... present at that meeting , except Mr. Skirving , and being present at that meeting , was no part of what was laid to ...
... present at one meeting of this society of the Friends of the People on the 29th October last ; and if the charge is ... present at that meeting , except Mr. Skirving , and being present at that meeting , was no part of what was laid to ...
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... present or not ; for supposing this to be. the rest of the letters , however strongly ex- pressed , contain no sentiment , or any advice , that may not bear a correspondent construc- tion . Although , therefore , the respondent hear ...
... present or not ; for supposing this to be. the rest of the letters , however strongly ex- pressed , contain no sentiment , or any advice , that may not bear a correspondent construc- tion . Although , therefore , the respondent hear ...
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... present or not ; for supposing this to be the case , the respondent , who was no member , and who never was but at one com- mittee meeting , where no resolution was passed , can in no view be criminated from any thing that passed ...
... present or not ; for supposing this to be the case , the respondent , who was no member , and who never was but at one com- mittee meeting , where no resolution was passed , can in no view be criminated from any thing that passed ...
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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.