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" I may truly affirm a laborious, zeal for the public service has given me any weight in your esteem, let me exhort and conjure you never to suffer an invasion of your political constitution, however minute the instance may appear, to pass by, without a... "
The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]. - Page 453
edited by - 1828
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The Letters of Junius: "Stat Nominis Umbra."

Junius - 1821 - 414 pages
...resistance. I ine precedent creates another. They soon accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterdpy was fact, to day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures ; and, wherr they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied hy analogy. Be assured, that the laws which...
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A Report of the Trial of James Forbes, William Graham, George Graham, Mathew ...

James Forbes, Richard Wilson Greene - 1823 - 384 pages
...celebrated writer, who has become a classic in our language: — • " One precedent," says he, cl creates another. They soon accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures, and when they do...
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The Letters of Junius

Junius - 1824 - 362 pages
...suffer an invasion of your political constitution, however minute the instance may appear, to pass hy, without a determined, persevering resistance. One...accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. — Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 2; Volume 10; Volume 59

United States. Congress - 1825 - 736 pages
...will. Junius has given an impressive warning never to suffer an invasion of the constitution, "however minute the instance may appear, to pass by without...accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures, and where they do...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 2; Volume 10; Volume 59

United States. Congress - 1825 - 734 pages
...will. Junius has given an impressive warning never to suffer an invasion of the constitution, " however minute the instance may appear, to pass by without...another They soon accumulate, and constitute law. \Vhat yester day was fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposée to justify the most dangerous...
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Remarks on the legality and expediency of prosecutions for religious opinion ...

Jonathan Duncan - 1825 - 274 pages
...opinions lately announced from the Bench. " One precedent creates another, they soon accumulate and become law. What yesterday was fact, to day is doctrine....the most dangerous measures, and when they do not exactly suit, the defect is supplied by analogy. Be assured that the laws which protect us in our civil...
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The Letters of Junius ...: Stat Nominis Umbra, Volume 1

Junius - 1827 - 226 pages
...exhort and conjure you, never to, VOL. I. 1* Buffer an invasion of your political constitution, however minute the instance may appear, to pass by, without...accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures ; and where they do...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 8

1827 - 530 pages
...this subject is, the fatal force which English lawyers give to precedents. Well might Junius say, " one precedent creates another — they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to dsty, is doctrine."^ Another proof, and in our judgment not a slight one, of the conscious infirmity...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 29

1828 - 592 pages
...instance may appear, to pass by, without a determined, persevering resistance. "One precedent," said he, "creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures, and where they do...
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An Essay on Junius and His Letters: Embracing a Sketch of the Life and ...

Benjamin Waterhouse - 1831 - 482 pages
...esteem, let me exhort and conjure you never to suffer an invasion of your political constitution, however minute the instance may appear, to pass by without...and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to day it doctrine." (Dedication to the English nation.) CHATHAM. " Let me entreat your Lordships, then, in...
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