Hortensius: Or, The Advocate: An Historical EssayJ. Murray, 1849 - 495 من الصفحات |
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... known of my existence here , Had I not tried the rogue before , and let him off , I fear . But when I take my seat in court , with coaxing flattery plied , Straightway the promises I break which I have made outside ; It seems at first a ...
... known of my existence here , Had I not tried the rogue before , and let him off , I fear . But when I take my seat in court , with coaxing flattery plied , Straightway the promises I break which I have made outside ; It seems at first a ...
الصفحة 46
... known to them the names of their assassins . " One of the most approved modes of obtaining evidence at Athens , and also at Rome , in civil as well as in cri- minal trials , was by the torture of slaves . We find the Grecian orators ...
... known to them the names of their assassins . " One of the most approved modes of obtaining evidence at Athens , and also at Rome , in civil as well as in cri- minal trials , was by the torture of slaves . We find the Grecian orators ...
الصفحة 47
... known to the more intelligent amongst the Greeks , and this renders it the more surprising that it should have been continued in the courts of law . Antiphon thus speaks of it in a defence which he wrote for a party on his trial for ...
... known to the more intelligent amongst the Greeks , and this renders it the more surprising that it should have been continued in the courts of law . Antiphon thus speaks of it in a defence which he wrote for a party on his trial for ...
الصفحة 49
... known or allowed by our law . " Yet instances have undoubtedly occurred in our criminal annals , where the torture was applied . Thus in the disgraceful proceedings against Peacham , in the reign of James I. , who was indicted for high ...
... known or allowed by our law . " Yet instances have undoubtedly occurred in our criminal annals , where the torture was applied . Thus in the disgraceful proceedings against Peacham , in the reign of James I. , who was indicted for high ...
الصفحة 63
... known . The next in order are those of the Twelve Tables . They were compiled by the Decemvirs at the beginning of the fourth century of Rome , and consisted 1 Dion Cassius , who flourished at the end of the second and in the early part ...
... known . The next in order are those of the Twelve Tables . They were compiled by the Decemvirs at the beginning of the fourth century of Rome , and consisted 1 Dion Cassius , who flourished at the end of the second and in the early part ...
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الصفحة 106 - T was on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
الصفحة 310 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
الصفحة 173 - That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused...
الصفحة 383 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
الصفحة 371 - The law against witches does not prove there be any ; but it punishes the malice of those people, that use such means to take away men's lives : if one should profess that by turning his hat thrice, and crying buz, he could take away a man's life, though in truth he could do no such thing : yet this were a just law made by the state, that whosoever should turn his hat thrice, and cry buz, with an intention to take away a man's life, shall be put to death.
الصفحة 350 - I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it.
الصفحة 419 - It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply ; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; so that it will take thirty years to decide, whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations, belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off.
الصفحة 23 - High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
الصفحة 72 - Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.
الصفحة 429 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.