American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials which Have Taken Place in the United States, from the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day : with Notes and Annotations, Volume 10

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John Davison Lawson
Thomas Law Book Company, 1914

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Halaman 127 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Halaman 737 - tis too horrible. The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Halaman 798 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Halaman 416 - Labourer, not having the fear of God before their Eyes but being moved and Seduced by the instigation of the Devil...
Halaman 260 - Well, gentlemen, I do not wish to take up any more of your time and thank you again for the honour you have done to me.
Halaman 526 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king ; and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.
Halaman 415 - A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770, by soldiers of the 2!Hh regiment; which, with the 14th regiment, were then quartered there ; with some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. Printed by order of the Town of Boston, and sold by Edes & Gill, in Queen street, and T. & J. Fleet, in Cornhill, 1770.
Halaman 149 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Halaman 171 - But why should I borrow the language of Foster, or of any other man, when the language of the indictment itself is lying before our eyes? What does it say ? Does it directly charge the overt act as in itself constituting the crime ? No. It charges that the Prisoner " maliciously and traitorously did compass, imagine, and intend to raise and levy war and rebellion against the King...
Halaman 841 - That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...

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