Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age, Never Before Printed: With an Appendix Consisting of Original, Explanatory, and Scarce Papers, Bind 1T.N. Longman, and L.B. Seeley, 1797 |
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Side 398 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Side 334 - People so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, and ordain Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances for the Public Peace, Welfare, and good Government of our said Colonies, and of the People and Inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England...
Side 149 - When Ireland was restrained from exporting her woollen manufactures," writes Sir James Caldwell, "the exportation of raw wool became the business, not of the few, but of many : it was no man's interest merely as a native of Ireland to prevent it ; it was, therefore, not only connived at but encouraged ; and those who did not unlawfully export raw wool for a pecuniary advantage to themselves, were well pleased to see it done by others, from a principle of resentment and indignation against those who...
Side 346 - If a king (says the book) comes to a kingdom by conquest, he may change and alter the laws of that kingdom ; but if he comes to it by title and descent, he cannot change the laws of himself without the consent of Parliament.
Side 262 - ... or to an officer of the crown ; that he thought the motion perfectly regular, and that it ought to be granted.
Side 405 - examining the newspapers every day with the ardour that a hawk prowls for prey. Whenever he found any lord's name printed in any paper, he immediately made a motion in the House of Peers against the printer for a breach of privilege."* In...
Side 16 - There are fome of lord Chatham's fpeeches on the American war, printed in the " Anecdotes of lord Chatham's life...
Side 246 - JCing'sR 3 bench. bench. That it was only in anfwer, by way of argument, to another pamphlet, that had advanced doctrines not agreeable to the notions of the author of The Letter on Libels. They likewife urged, that fuppofing a pamphlet to be a reflection upon the party alluded to, yet that an attachment was an improper mode...
Side 372 - ... be proved, or elfe the Jury cannot find him guilty. The fame of an aflault, with an intention to kill : if the intention is not proved, he muft be acquitted. If he kills, and the intention is not proved, that is, if it is not proved that he killed premeditately and of forethought, it is but manflaughter.
Side 259 - Juttices to proceed in that filiation. The motion was accordingly made by Mr. Mansfield. " The Lord Chief Juftice Mansfield...