Selections from the Writings of the Late J. Sydney Taylor: With a Brief Sketch of His LifeC. Gilpin, 1843 - 496 страници |
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... murder has pervaded the land from one extremity to the other , it has become necessary for our legislators to give themselves some trouble relative to minor , or , as they are usually called , secondary punishments . * Those who shall ...
... murder has pervaded the land from one extremity to the other , it has become necessary for our legislators to give themselves some trouble relative to minor , or , as they are usually called , secondary punishments . * Those who shall ...
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... wherever it much prevails , murder is more frequent than elsewhere , because the law detracts from the sacredness of life in the eyes of the multitude . " Life for life " is part and 42 SCENE AT AN EXECUTION . Scene at an Execution •
... wherever it much prevails , murder is more frequent than elsewhere , because the law detracts from the sacredness of life in the eyes of the multitude . " Life for life " is part and 42 SCENE AT AN EXECUTION . Scene at an Execution •
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... murder , not on the vulgar principle of expiation - for how can the taking the life of one person , compensate for the murder of another ? -but because , murder being the greatest of all crimes , it should not be confounded in ...
... murder , not on the vulgar principle of expiation - for how can the taking the life of one person , compensate for the murder of another ? -but because , murder being the greatest of all crimes , it should not be confounded in ...
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... murder were passed over without the serious notice of our Government , and the obtaining such satisfaction for the violation of the law of nations , and the insult to the British power , as the nature of the case would permit . The call ...
... murder were passed over without the serious notice of our Government , and the obtaining such satisfaction for the violation of the law of nations , and the insult to the British power , as the nature of the case would permit . The call ...
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... Murder of a British Subject in Spain . - July 5 , 1834 . IT has often been our task , as we have felt it our duty , to protect great principles of the law and Constitution when in danger of being violated by an overstrained exercise of ...
... Murder of a British Subject in Spain . - July 5 , 1834 . IT has often been our task , as we have felt it our duty , to protect great principles of the law and Constitution when in danger of being violated by an overstrained exercise of ...
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Страница 417 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Страница xxxii - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Страница xliv - Muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust. But fairer wreaths are due — though never paid — To those who, posted at the shrine of Truth, Have fallen in her defence.
Страница 276 - When a Prince to the fate of the Peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming, In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a Chief of the People should fall.
Страница xxxii - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Страница 456 - WHEREAS the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom.
Страница 323 - ... whole he is taught, practice must also be the whole he will ever know ; if he be uninstructed in the elements and first principles upon which the rule of practice is founded, the least variation from established precedents will totally distract and bewilder him : ita lex...
Страница 457 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Страница xxxii - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Страница 437 - The good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger and...