The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when at the Bar : on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press, and Against Constructive Treasons, Volum 3J. Ridgway, 1813 |
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Pàgina 1
... Judges of the Court of Common Pleas , and a Special Jury , on the 2d of April 1794 . SUBJECT , & c . WE have not found it necessary for the full under- standing of this interesting and extraordinary case , to print the evidence given ...
... Judges of the Court of Common Pleas , and a Special Jury , on the 2d of April 1794 . SUBJECT , & c . WE have not found it necessary for the full under- standing of this interesting and extraordinary case , to print the evidence given ...
Pàgina 2
... safely trusted . - The conduct of Mr. Law was highly to his honour , and a prognostic of his future character as a Judge . 2 ..... No side > ... The Indictment having been opened by Mr. JAMES , Mr. 2 SUBJECT OF THE TRIAL , & c .
... safely trusted . - The conduct of Mr. Law was highly to his honour , and a prognostic of his future character as a Judge . 2 ..... No side > ... The Indictment having been opened by Mr. JAMES , Mr. 2 SUBJECT OF THE TRIAL , & c .
Pàgina 20
... Judge representing the Government in the northern district of this kingdom should be sitting here in judgment in the presence of all the gentle- men whose property lies in this great county , to trace and to punish the existence of a ...
... Judge representing the Government in the northern district of this kingdom should be sitting here in judgment in the presence of all the gentle- men whose property lies in this great county , to trace and to punish the existence of a ...
Pàgina 45
... Judges upon the northern circuit published as a toast Mr. Justice Heath . You know you cannot give this in evidence . Mr. Erskine . Gentlemen , considering the situa tion in which iny Clients stand at this moment , I expressed the idea ...
... Judges upon the northern circuit published as a toast Mr. Justice Heath . You know you cannot give this in evidence . Mr. Erskine . Gentlemen , considering the situa tion in which iny Clients stand at this moment , I expressed the idea ...
Pàgina 47
... Judge ; certainly it can be no offence , and consequently my Clients can be no offenders . ' - Having now exposed the weakness of Dunn's evi- dence , from its own intrinsic defects , and from the positive contradiction every part of it ...
... Judge ; certainly it can be no offence , and consequently my Clients can be no offenders . ' - Having now exposed the weakness of Dunn's evi- dence , from its own intrinsic defects , and from the positive contradiction every part of it ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 493 - England worship freedom, they will turn their faces toward you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Pàgina 493 - ... is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; — they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Pàgina 81 - Queen, or of their eldest son and 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...
Pàgina 494 - It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Pàgina 399 - Whatever alterations time and the necessary accommodation of business may have introduced, this character can never be sustained, unless the House of Commons shall be made to bear some stamp of the. actual disposition of the people at large.
Pàgina 56 - King, not having the fear of God in their hearts, nor weighing the duty of their allegiance, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, as false traitors against our said Lord the King...
Pàgina 415 - Whatsoever cannot but be acknowledged to be of advantage to the society and people in general, upon just and lasting measures, will always, when done, justify itself; and whenever the people shall choose their representatives upon just and undeniably equal measures, suitable to the original frame of the government, it cannot be doubted to be the will and act of the society, whoever permitted or caused them so to do.
Pàgina 80 - ... when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or of our lady the queen, or of their eldest son and heir...
Pàgina 402 - The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength and far less odium, under the name of influence.
Pàgina 413 - To what gross absurdities the following of custom when reason has left it may lead, we may be satisfied when we see the bare name of a town, of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a...