Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... judges of characters with equable severity , not altogether untinctured with cynicism , but free from the slightest touch of passion , party spirit , or caprice . We should probably like Mr. Hallam's book more if , instead of pointing ...
... judges of characters with equable severity , not altogether untinctured with cynicism , but free from the slightest touch of passion , party spirit , or caprice . We should probably like Mr. Hallam's book more if , instead of pointing ...
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... Judges , servile as our Courts then were , pronounced in his favour . The majority against him was the smallest possible . In no country retaining the slightest vestige of constitutional liberty can a modest and decent appeal to the ...
... Judges , servile as our Courts then were , pronounced in his favour . The majority against him was the smallest possible . In no country retaining the slightest vestige of constitutional liberty can a modest and decent appeal to the ...
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... Judges were consulted . They answered , with one accord , that the articles on which the earl was convicted amounted to ... judge , it was unbiassed ; and , though there may be room for hesitation , we think , on the whole , that it was ...
... Judges were consulted . They answered , with one accord , that the articles on which the earl was convicted amounted to ... judge , it was unbiassed ; and , though there may be room for hesitation , we think , on the whole , that it was ...
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... judge is so cruel as he who indemnifies himself for scrupulosity in cases of blood , by licence in affairs of smaller importance . The difference in tale on the one side far more than makes up for the difference in weight on the other ...
... judge is so cruel as he who indemnifies himself for scrupulosity in cases of blood , by licence in affairs of smaller importance . The difference in tale on the one side far more than makes up for the difference in weight on the other ...
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... judge of his act by itself alone . And we say , without hesitation , that it is impossible to acquit him of having meditated violence , and violence which might probably end in blood . He knew that the legality of his proceedings was ...
... judge of his act by itself alone . And we say , without hesitation , that it is impossible to acquit him of having meditated violence , and violence which might probably end in blood . He knew that the legality of his proceedings was ...
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