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... difficult to decide which of the two , taken separately , is the best adapted for the defence of innocence and the detection of guilt ; but we think it is not at all difficult to show that in each there are deficiencies that might be ...
... difficult to decide which of the two , taken separately , is the best adapted for the defence of innocence and the detection of guilt ; but we think it is not at all difficult to show that in each there are deficiencies that might be ...
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... difficult to find in the criminal annals of any country a trial more likely to stimulate , and yet baffle , curiosity . We will state very shortly the leading facts . L'Angelier was a native of Jersey , and in the year 1855 , while in ...
... difficult to find in the criminal annals of any country a trial more likely to stimulate , and yet baffle , curiosity . We will state very shortly the leading facts . L'Angelier was a native of Jersey , and in the year 1855 , while in ...
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... difficult to make an intelligent foreigner believe that in ordi- nary cases it is left very much to chance to determine , not only who the prosecutor shall be , but whether there shall be any prosecution at all . Except in cases of high ...
... difficult to make an intelligent foreigner believe that in ordi- nary cases it is left very much to chance to determine , not only who the prosecutor shall be , but whether there shall be any prosecution at all . Except in cases of high ...
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... difficult therefore for those who are accustomed to the publicity that prevails in England to acquiesce in the conclusions of a high authority on Scotch Criminal Law , that ' the strict seclusion of the prisoner in the interval between ...
... difficult therefore for those who are accustomed to the publicity that prevails in England to acquiesce in the conclusions of a high authority on Scotch Criminal Law , that ' the strict seclusion of the prisoner in the interval between ...
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... difficult to conceive how the answer given by an innocent party to questions put to him , can be more dangerous to him than silence - which is one of the strongest presumptions of guilt . It is probable , indeed , that in some cases ...
... difficult to conceive how the answer given by an innocent party to questions put to him , can be more dangerous to him than silence - which is one of the strongest presumptions of guilt . It is probable , indeed , that in some cases ...
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Page 301 - ... in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning ! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 149 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm weakened the stability of their order, their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the...
Page 105 - Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls ; The seals and maces danc'd before him. His bushy beard, and shoe-strings green, His high-crown'd hat and satin doublet, Mov'd the stout heart of England's Queen, Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.
Page 357 - The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 8 - ... 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 protection.
Page 253 - ... the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits, commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all the lands, countries and territories upon the coasts and confines of the seas, straits, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks and sounds, aforesaid, which are not now actually possessed by any of our subjects, or by the subjects of any other Christian Prince or State.
Page 11 - Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property.
Page 11 - I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure. By all you hold most dear, by all the ties that bind every one of us to our common order, and our common country, I solemnly adjure you, I warn you, I implore you, yea, on my bended knees (he kneels) I supplicate you, reject not this Bill...
Page 8 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other.
Page 287 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Gyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.