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Página 310
Let it not be feared that the agents of authority , in their reliance on the favor of
juries , will be too apt to disobey . Their natural inclination , urged moreover by
interest and self - love , is towards obedience . The favors of administration are
thus ...
Let it not be feared that the agents of authority , in their reliance on the favor of
juries , will be too apt to disobey . Their natural inclination , urged moreover by
interest and self - love , is towards obedience . The favors of administration are
thus ...
Página 312
The question was brought before the courts . It was not disputed , that the
collector was punishable , if the authority under which he acted was not legal ;
and the Chief Justice , Lord Mansfield , merely undertook to prove to the jury , that
the ...
The question was brought before the courts . It was not disputed , that the
collector was punishable , if the authority under which he acted was not legal ;
and the Chief Justice , Lord Mansfield , merely undertook to prove to the jury , that
the ...
Página 314
Their authority was precarious , because it had neither the legitimacy of tradition ,
nor that of popularity ; and being precarious , it was compelled to be unrelenting .
Happily , all this has been altered : our tribunals are powerful against the ...
Their authority was precarious , because it had neither the legitimacy of tradition ,
nor that of popularity ; and being precarious , it was compelled to be unrelenting .
Happily , all this has been altered : our tribunals are powerful against the ...
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Some incoherent talk of a discontented person , without influence or authority ,
the meeting of two or three citizens , who join in vain murmurs , or , if you will , in
chimerical projects , these trifles , you think , call not only for the agency of the law
...
Some incoherent talk of a discontented person , without influence or authority ,
the meeting of two or three citizens , who join in vain murmurs , or , if you will , in
chimerical projects , these trifles , you think , call not only for the agency of the law
...
Página 330
It unites the information of our days with the authority of ages , and the sanction of
legitimacy . We are fatigued by our useless struggles . We are enlightened by our
long and painful experience . We have been decimated by anarchy ; and ...
It unites the information of our days with the authority of ages , and the sanction of
legitimacy . We are fatigued by our useless struggles . We are enlightened by our
long and painful experience . We have been decimated by anarchy ; and ...
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Página 96 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Página 545 - In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to practise on others the arts which are practised on himself ; and gains the kindness of his associates by similitude of manners.
Página 396 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family...
Página 523 - They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty hath no fence against superior cunning...
Página 536 - There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts. One is, that every man is presumed solvent. A presumption, in innumerable cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment.
Página 541 - ... the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain what belongs to others.
Página 397 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn.
Página 352 - An account of the proceedings of the British and other Protestant inhabitants of the province of Quebeck, in North America, in order to obtain an House of Assembly in that province.
Página 538 - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own. He will receive, not by...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Pamphleteer, Volumen 5 |
| Editor | Abraham John Valpy |
| Editor | A. J. Valpy., 1815 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 23 Jun 2007 |
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