The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, Volume 5F. D. Linn, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... witnesses , June 26 , 123. Denman's quotation : " Some cogging , cozening slave , " etc. , 124. Bill of Pains and Penalties introduced , July 5 , 124. Resolved that the trial should commence on August 17 , 124. Counsel for the Queen ...
... witnesses , June 26 , 123. Denman's quotation : " Some cogging , cozening slave , " etc. , 124. Bill of Pains and Penalties introduced , July 5 , 124. Resolved that the trial should commence on August 17 , 124. Counsel for the Queen ...
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... Witnesses called for the Queen , 132. Copley's cross- examinations , 133. Exultation of ministers , 133. Witnesses for the Queen kept back by Government , 133. Denman at Holland House , pre- paring his speech on summing up the evidence ...
... Witnesses called for the Queen , 132. Copley's cross- examinations , 133. Exultation of ministers , 133. Witnesses for the Queen kept back by Government , 133. Denman at Holland House , pre- paring his speech on summing up the evidence ...
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... witnesses was remaining in the box , standing at his ease with his hands in his pock- ets , apparently enjoying most heartily and laughing at 1 Born 1768 ; called to Bar 1791 ; Serjeant 1799 ; King's Serjeant 1816 ; Baron of Exchequer ...
... witnesses was remaining in the box , standing at his ease with his hands in his pock- ets , apparently enjoying most heartily and laughing at 1 Born 1768 ; called to Bar 1791 ; Serjeant 1799 ; King's Serjeant 1816 ; Baron of Exchequer ...
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... witnesses the lines ran thus : Every man his skill must try , He must turn out and not deny ; No bloody soldier must he dread , He must turn out and fight for bread ; The time is come , you plainly see , When Government opposed must be ...
... witnesses the lines ran thus : Every man his skill must try , He must turn out and not deny ; No bloody soldier must he dread , He must turn out and fight for bread ; The time is come , you plainly see , When Government opposed must be ...
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... witnesses had seen him but once before , in the night , several months ago , and never paused for a second look - they recognized him in a moment . Like the captain of a band of pirates , or the head of a troop of banditti , he was ...
... witnesses had seen him but once before , in the night , several months ago , and never paused for a second look - they recognized him in a moment . Like the captain of a band of pirates , or the head of a troop of banditti , he was ...
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Page 86 - That man of loneliness and mystery Scarce seen to smile, and seldom heard to sigh; Whose name appals the fiercest of his crew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hue; Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart.
Page 200 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book— left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 235 - His Majesty recommends, that when this essential object shall have been accomplished, you should take into your deliberate consideration the whole condition of Ireland ; and that you should review the laws which impose civil disabilities on his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects.
Page 131 - Altar, which must stagger with the blow that rends its kindred Throne ! You have said, my Lords, you have willed — the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service. She has, instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people.
Page 149 - ERE the daughter of Brunswick is cold in her grave, And her ashes still float to their home o'er the tide, Lo ! George the triumphant speeds over the wave, To the long-cherish'd isle which he loved like his — bride.
Page 86 - It is ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince Re-gent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty...
Page 79 - I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula; I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey; but never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen, since my return, in the very heart of a Christian country.
Page 277 - But those who, within the last ten years, have listened with delight, till the morning sun shone on the tapestries of the House of Lords, to the lofty and animated eloquence of Charles Earl Grey, are able to form some estimate of the powers of a race of men among whom he was not the foremost.
Page 249 - He was not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but he would at once declare, that, as far as he was concerned, as long as he held any station in the government of the country, he should always feel it his duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.
Page 131 - ... from the roots and the stem of the tree. Save that country, that you may continue to adorn it — save the Crown, which is in jeopardy — the Aristocracy, which is shaken — save the Altar, which must stagger with the blow that rends its kindred Throne!