Eugene Aram: His Life and Trial, Masalah 1

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W. Hodge, 1913 - 221 halaman
Eugene Aram was tried August 1759 at York Assizes for the murder of Daniel Clark in 1745.
 

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Halaman 20 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Halaman 96 - Reformation, the ravages of those times affected both the living and the dead. In search after imaginary treasures, coffins were broken up, graves and vaults dug open, monu-ments ransacked and shrines demolished; and it ceased about the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Halaman 91 - My lord," began Aram, in that remarkable defence still extant, and still considered as wholly unequalled from the lips of one defending his own cause ; — "my lord, I know not whether it is of right, or through some indulgence of your lordship, that I am allowed the liberty at this bar, and at this time, to attempt a defence ; incapable and uninstructed as I am to speak. Since, while I see so many eyes upon me, so numerous and awful a concourse, fixed with attention, and filled with I know not what...
Halaman 91 - I humbly conceive my notice of this, especially at this time, will not be thought impertinent or unreasonable, but at least deserving some attention: because, my lord, that any person, after a temperate use of life, a series of thinking and acting regularly, and without one single deviation from sobriety, should plunge into the very depth of profligacy precipitately and at once, is altogether improbable and unprecedented, and absolutely inconsistent with the course of things. Mankind is never corrupted...
Halaman 98 - I, at last, after a year's confinement, equal to either fortune, put myself upon the candour, the justice, and the humanity of your lordship : and upon yours, my countrymen, gentlemen of the jury.
Halaman 156 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Halaman 116 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Halaman 92 - Besides, it must needs occur to every one, that an action of this atrocious nature is never heard of but when its springs are laid open, it appears that it was to support some indolence, or supply some luxury; to satisfy some avarice, or oblige some malice; to prevent some real, or some imaginary want: yet I lay not under the influence of any one of these. Surely, my lord, I may, consistent with both truth and modesty, affirm thus much; and none who have any veracity, and knew me, will ever question...
Halaman 94 - ... to represent it in parliament, were found, in digging for gravel, not one human skeleton only, but five or six, deposited side by side, with each an urn placed on its head, as your lordship knows was usual in ancient interments.
Halaman 92 - I, pas! the vigour of my age, feeble and valetudinary, with no inducement to engage — no ability to accomplish — no weapon wherewith to perpetrate such a fact ; without interest — without power • — without motive — without means!

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