The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence, Band 16

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Owen Richards, 1852
 

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Seite 49 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 93 - I'd shun, with as much studious care, As I would dens where hungry lions are ; And rather put up injuries, than be A plague to him, who'd be a plague to me. I value quiet at a price too great, To give for my revenge so dear a rate : For what do we by all our bustle gain, But counterfeit delight for real pain ? If Heaven a date of many years would give, Thus I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live.
Seite 284 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Seite 257 - Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled 'An Act for the...
Seite 398 - But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Seite 49 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or...
Seite 285 - Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law.
Seite 398 - It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims.
Seite 230 - ... who would for the time being have been entitled to the rents and profits of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments so hereby directed to be purchased, in case such purchase or settlement were made.
Seite 100 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

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