The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, Before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855Published for the author, 1855 - 221 sider |
Fra bogen
Resultater 6-10 af 49
Side 25
... once to be kept in view , so many ponderous interests are to be weighed , so many comparisons to be made , and so many judgments formed , that the mind of an ordinary man is distracted and confounded , and rendered incapable of coming ...
... once to be kept in view , so many ponderous interests are to be weighed , so many comparisons to be made , and so many judgments formed , that the mind of an ordinary man is distracted and confounded , and rendered incapable of coming ...
Side 28
... once spoken of the Puritans as " good subjects , " and of his knowing " that the King did not wish them to be harshly dealt with . " In 1637 Laud directed that he should be prosecuted in the Star - Chamber for " publishing false news ...
... once spoken of the Puritans as " good subjects , " and of his knowing " that the King did not wish them to be harshly dealt with . " In 1637 Laud directed that he should be prosecuted in the Star - Chamber for " publishing false news ...
Side 33
... once we come to impeach the government by way of argument , it is the argument that makes it the government , or not the government . So that I lay down that , in the first place , the government ought not to be impeached by argument ...
... once we come to impeach the government by way of argument , it is the argument that makes it the government , or not the government . So that I lay down that , in the first place , the government ought not to be impeached by argument ...
Side 39
... once to a ' total and immediate abolition of the trade . ' One witness has come to your Lordship's bar with a face of woe - his eyes full of tears , and his countenance fraught with horror , and said , ' My Lords , 1 am ruined if you ...
... once to a ' total and immediate abolition of the trade . ' One witness has come to your Lordship's bar with a face of woe - his eyes full of tears , and his countenance fraught with horror , and said , ' My Lords , 1 am ruined if you ...
Side 46
... once swept away , and all the property of the kingdom put into the hands of the enemy of the People . These four decisions would make the King of England as absolute as the Sultan of Turkey , or the Russian Czar . If the opinion of the ...
... once swept away , and all the property of the kingdom put into the hands of the enemy of the People . These four decisions would make the King of England as absolute as the Sultan of Turkey , or the Russian Czar . If the opinion of the ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
aforesaid alleged America Anthony Burns appointed attempt Attorney authority bondage Boston brought to trial Campbell charge Charles Chief Justice citizens committed common conscience Constitution counsel Court House crime declared deed defend despotism duty Edward G Ellen Craft England evincing an express execution fact Faneuil Hall Freedom Freeman fugitive slave bill Gentlemen Grand-Jury guilty habeas corpus Hallett hands high treason Higher Law Hist honor human imprisonment indictment jail Judge Curtis judicial jurors jury Kelyng kidnapping king lawyers levying libel liberty Lord Lord Chancellor mankind Marshal matter ment minister misdemeanor moral murder nation oath obey obstructing offence officer opinion Parl Parliament party peace Peleg Sprague persons political punish purpose question refused Religion resist Scroggs seditious Sermon Slave Power Slavery speech statute Theodore Parker thing tion trial by jury tyranny unalienable United verdict warrant Webster wicked words
Populære passager
Side 148 - That the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land...
Side 101 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Side 189 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Side 191 - Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
Side 96 - Gentlemen, you shall not be dismissed till we have a verdict that the court will accept, and you shall be locked up without meat, drink, fire, and tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it.
Side 119 - I discharged every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity, as absolute and as palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image...
Side 161 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Side 132 - Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering; but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Side 111 - I hope will not be taken amiss of me to say in this place, to wit, the practice of informations for libels is a sword in the hands of a wicked king, and an arrant coward to cut down and destroy the innocent; the one cannot, because of his high station, and the other dares not, because of his want of courage, revenge himself in another manner.
Side 31 - And every parish shall maintain a tithe pig metropolitan." Baxter beginning to speak again, Jefferies reviled him; "Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.