The Pamphleteer, Volume 5Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1815 - Great Britain |
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... Verdict . By JOHN LONGLEY , Esq . III . A Letter to his Excellency the Prince of TALLEY- RAND PERIGORD , & c . & c . & c . on the subject of the SLAVE TRADE . By W. WILBERFORCE , Esq . M. P. IV . V. VI . 299 331 .. 353 On the Means of ...
... Verdict . By JOHN LONGLEY , Esq . III . A Letter to his Excellency the Prince of TALLEY- RAND PERIGORD , & c . & c . & c . on the subject of the SLAVE TRADE . By W. WILBERFORCE , Esq . M. P. IV . V. VI . 299 331 .. 353 On the Means of ...
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... verdict of a jury or judgment on demurrer , or otherwise , in an action for a false return , that such return is false in fact ; yet that they were of opinion , that in case the facts returned to a writ of Habeas Corpus showed a ...
... verdict of a jury or judgment on demurrer , or otherwise , in an action for a false return , that such return is false in fact ; yet that they were of opinion , that in case the facts returned to a writ of Habeas Corpus showed a ...
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... verdict was for- gotten , and some other motive would be alleged for their perse- cution . It would no longer be then a few obscure citizens , whom you had delivered to the tyranny of the police ; you would have given up all the courts ...
... verdict was for- gotten , and some other motive would be alleged for their perse- cution . It would no longer be then a few obscure citizens , whom you had delivered to the tyranny of the police ; you would have given up all the courts ...
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... VERDICT . BY JOHN LONGLEY , ESQ . LATE RECORDER OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER ; AND AT PRESENT ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE THAMES POLICE . 1812 . NO . X. Pam . VOL . V. Z OBSERVATIONS , & .c . THE Trial by Jury is Observations on the TRIAL BY ...
... VERDICT . BY JOHN LONGLEY , ESQ . LATE RECORDER OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER ; AND AT PRESENT ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE THAMES POLICE . 1812 . NO . X. Pam . VOL . V. Z OBSERVATIONS , & .c . THE Trial by Jury is Observations on the TRIAL BY ...
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... verdict give , according to the evidence . In civil cases , they swear in the same man- ner , mutatis mutandis , always concluding as in the former case , that they will give a true verdict according to the evidence . After the council ...
... verdict give , according to the evidence . In civil cases , they swear in the same man- ner , mutatis mutandis , always concluding as in the former case , that they will give a true verdict according to the evidence . After the council ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...