Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ...J. Chapman, 1851 - Judges |
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Page 551 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed...
Page 294 - Sec. 2, providing that the judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Page 131 - ... laws: and it shall be among the first acts of the general court, after the commencement of this constitution, to establish such salary by law accordingly.
Page 515 - Ay, as one remembers the face of a dead friend by gathering up the broken fragments of his image — as one listens to the tale of a dream twice told — as one catches the roar of the ocean in the ripple of a rivulet — as one sees the blaze of noon in the first glimmer of twilight.
Page 552 - They maintained, that they themselves were the only pure church ; that their principles and practices ought to be established by law ; and that no others ought to be tolerated.
Page 562 - Upon the fullest consideration which I have been able to give the subject, I entirely concur in your views. If I had been called upon to pronounce a judgment in a like case, I should have certainly arrived at the same result.
Page 58 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right: In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
Page 556 - The voice of pleasure or of power may pass by unheeded; but the voice of affliction never. The chamber of the sick, the pillow of the dying, the vigils of the dead, the altars of religion, never missed the presence or the sympathies of woman. Timid though she be, and so delicate that the...
Page 341 - ... do unto all men as we would they should do unto us...