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... object in the collection will be gained , if it help to satisfy you and your brother , in after life , that my course was one of sincerity and independence , that I was no idler in the positions which I have occupied , and that I made ...
... object in the collection will be gained , if it help to satisfy you and your brother , in after life , that my course was one of sincerity and independence , that I was no idler in the positions which I have occupied , and that I made ...
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... object of the institution . Crescembeni , with this view , published a pastoral poem entitled " Elvio , " which he dedicated to the Princess della Scalea , herself an Arcadian , under the name of Amarante Eleusina , and which he him ...
... object of the institution . Crescembeni , with this view , published a pastoral poem entitled " Elvio , " which he dedicated to the Princess della Scalea , herself an Arcadian , under the name of Amarante Eleusina , and which he him ...
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... object , everything about us will dwindle , by degrees , until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds . It is not a predilection for mean , sordid , home - bred cares which can avert the con- sequences of a ...
... object , everything about us will dwindle , by degrees , until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds . It is not a predilection for mean , sordid , home - bred cares which can avert the con- sequences of a ...
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... objects proposed by Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt in their East India bills , and of the means by which they endeavoured to attain them , is essential to the due understanding of the existing system ; and as the complete failure of the ends ...
... objects proposed by Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt in their East India bills , and of the means by which they endeavoured to attain them , is essential to the due understanding of the existing system ; and as the complete failure of the ends ...
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... object was merely to do that effectually , the expediency of which had already been repeatedly declared by the Legislature ; the necessity of which was proved by the reports on which the bill was grounded , namely , to transfer the ...
... object was merely to do that effectually , the expediency of which had already been repeatedly declared by the Legislature ; the necessity of which was proved by the reports on which the bill was grounded , namely , to transfer 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...