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... influence of an excitement over which the will can have but little control , the distinguishing characteristics of extem- poraneous poetry are rather bold and nervous figures than correctness or precision . The very attempt to subject ...
... influence of an excitement over which the will can have but little control , the distinguishing characteristics of extem- poraneous poetry are rather bold and nervous figures than correctness or precision . The very attempt to subject ...
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... influence over the Court of Directors . Debtors to the proprietors for the attainment of the " highest object of their ambition , " these gentlemen evince or promise to evince their gratitude , by charging the friends and relatives of ...
... influence over the Court of Directors . Debtors to the proprietors for the attainment of the " highest object of their ambition , " these gentlemen evince or promise to evince their gratitude , by charging the friends and relatives of ...
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... influence once established by its agents in the councils of Native Princes , must have an inevitable tendency to increase , and that in the contingency of such increase , without suitable check and control , the authority of the Crown ...
... influence once established by its agents in the councils of Native Princes , must have an inevitable tendency to increase , and that in the contingency of such increase , without suitable check and control , the authority of the Crown ...
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... influence of the Crown . Rendered odious by the violent invectives of Mr. Pitt , disabled by the avowed hostility of the Court , by whose minions he was traduced , Mr. Fox was driven from the helm of power by a conspiracy to alarm the ...
... influence of the Crown . Rendered odious by the violent invectives of Mr. Pitt , disabled by the avowed hostility of the Court , by whose minions he was traduced , Mr. Fox was driven from the helm of power by a conspiracy to alarm the ...
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... influence which was said to have been secured by it to Mr. Fox , in case of his dis- missal from office , was unquestionably a mere chimera of his rival's imagination . When therefore we are told , by those who would perpetuate the ...
... influence which was said to have been secured by it to Mr. Fox , in case of his dis- missal from office , was unquestionably a mere chimera of his rival's imagination . When therefore we are told , by those who would perpetuate the ...
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Page 303 - It is not the intention of the court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
Page 303 - And indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony : ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.
Page 229 - Heir ; or if a Man do violate the King's Companion, or the King's eldest Daughter unmarried, or the Wife of the King's Eldest Son and Heir ; or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm...
Page 243 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.
Page 22 - But if, we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty ; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured, that everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds.
Page 215 - The job customarily requires full-time training for a period of not less than six months and not more than two years.
Page 178 - The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman Catholics is a sort of despot, who yields obedience, in whatever concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will.
Page 303 - However flagitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the government of our country, such conspiracy is not treason. To conspire to levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into open action by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself, or the fact of levying war cannot have been committed.
Page 303 - The other part of the clause, requiring the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or a confession in open court, to justify a conviction, is founded upon the same reasoning. A like provision exists in British jurisprudence, founded upon the same great policy of protecting men against false testimony and unguarded confessions, to their utter ruin.
Page 82 - ... situate on the continent of Asia, from the river Indus to the town of Malacca inclusive...