A Memoir of the Right Honourable James, First Lord Abinger, Chief Baron of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer

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Pagina 20 - Early Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. 3 Vols. Post Svo. 18>.
Pagina 322 - ... the individual actings of some of the conspirators were wholly confined to other counties than Middlesex ; but still the conspiracy, as against all, having been proved, from the community of criminal purpose, and by their joint co-operation in forwarding the objects of it in different places and counties ; the locality required for the purpose of trial was holden to be satisfied by overt acts done by some of them, in prosecution of the conspiracy, in the county where the trial was had.
Pagina 322 - East 171), is generally a matter of inference, deduced from certain criminal acts of the parties accused, done in pursuance of an apparent criminal purpose in common between them.
Pagina 300 - Moore, 813., where it was resolved " that every one who shall be convicted in the said case, either ought to be a contriver of the libel, or a procurer of the contriving of it; or a malicious publisher of it, knowing it to be a libel...
Pagina 73 - He must show that his mind is busied about nothing else. He must be always working upon the concrete, and pointing to his conclusion. He must disdain all jest, ornament, or sarcasm that does not fall directly in his way, and seem to be so unavoidable that it must strike everybody who thinks of the facts.
Pagina 298 - ... what greater scandal of government can there be than to have corrupt or wicked magistrates to be appointed and constituted by the King to govern his subjects under him? And greater imputation to the state cannot be, than to suffer such corrupt men to sit in the sacred seat of justice, or to have any meddling in or concerning the administration of justice.
Pagina 75 - ... rather a hope than a confident opinion [that] upon a deliberate and calm investigation I should be able to satisfy the Court and jury that the plaintiff was entitled to the verdict. I then avoided all appearance of confidence, and endeavored to place the reasoning on my part in the clearest and strongest view, and to weaken that of my adversary; to show that the facts for the plaintiff could lead naturally but to one conclusion, while those of the defendant might be accounted for on other hypotheses:...
Pagina 379 - ... citizens. The lesson which all armies have learnt is, first, that their duty is not to butcher their fellow subjects at a tyrant's commands, in order to save a priest's favour, or a minister's place. Next, that if in breach of their duty they lend themselves to the treasonable plots 228 of courtiers, they are rushing upon their own certain destruction.
Pagina 305 - Etiam sparsos de se in curia famosos libellos nee expavit et magna cura redarguit ac ne requisitis quidem auctoribus id modo censuit, cognoscendum posthac de iis, qui libellos aut carmina ad infamiam cuiuspiam sub alieno nomine edant.

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