The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with Liberty of the Press, and Against Constructive Treasons, Band 2James Ridgway J. Ridgway, 1813 |
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... wish I could express it as well myself ) , is this : - " Mr. Paine , in reply , cuts the " Gordian knot at once , declares the Parliament of " 1688 to have been downright usurpers , censures " them for having unwisely sent to Holland ...
... wish I could express it as well myself ) , is this : - " Mr. Paine , in reply , cuts the " Gordian knot at once , declares the Parliament of " 1688 to have been downright usurpers , censures " them for having unwisely sent to Holland ...
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... wish to fulfil a duty to the Defendant , which , if I do not deceive myself , is at this moment peculiarly necessary to his impar- tial trial . If an advocate entertains sentiments inju- rious to the defence he is engaged in , he is not ...
... wish to fulfil a duty to the Defendant , which , if I do not deceive myself , is at this moment peculiarly necessary to his impar- tial trial . If an advocate entertains sentiments inju- rious to the defence he is engaged in , he is not ...
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... disobey the law , because their judgment condemns it ; -or resist the public will , because they honestly wish to change it - he is then a criminal upon every principle of rational policy , as well as upon 96 MR . ERSKINE'S SPEECH ON THE.
... disobey the law , because their judgment condemns it ; -or resist the public will , because they honestly wish to change it - he is then a criminal upon every principle of rational policy , as well as upon 96 MR . ERSKINE'S SPEECH ON THE.
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... wish to deal with every man who comes before you in judgment , as you would be dealt by ; and surely you will not lay it down to - day as a law to be binding hereafter even upon yourselves , that if you should publish any opinion ...
... wish to deal with every man who comes before you in judgment , as you would be dealt by ; and surely you will not lay it down to - day as a law to be binding hereafter even upon yourselves , that if you should publish any opinion ...
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... country under heaven - I wish indeed to except our own , but I cannot even do that , till it shall be purged of those abuses which , though they obscure and deform the surface , have not as yet I 1 TRIAL OF THOMAS PAINE 119.
... country under heaven - I wish indeed to except our own , but I cannot even do that , till it shall be purged of those abuses which , though they obscure and deform the surface , have not as yet I 1 TRIAL OF THOMAS PAINE 119.
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Seite 179 - ... I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her...
Seite 179 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks...
Seite 24 - King there inhabiting and being, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Seite 178 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Seite 200 - And all the rule, one empire; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance ; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Seite 18 - An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Seite 397 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.
Seite 199 - Lost," the rest from his finished labors, and the ultimate hope, expectation, and glory of the world. " A virgin is his mother, but his sire, The power of the Most High ; he shall ascend The throne hereditary, and bound his reign With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
Seite 62 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king ; and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.
Seite 178 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has, not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it...