The Romance of the Forum, Or, Narratives, Scenes, and Anecdotes from Courts of JusticeCornish, Lamport & Company, 1853 - Всего страниц: 308 |
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... believe , made Mr. Curran . - What was the sum you told Mr. Pitt that he owed you ? -About £ 300 . By virtue of your oath , was that the sum you mentioned ? -I think so . The sum due to me was between £ 250 and £ 300 . Did you never ...
... believe , made Mr. Curran . - What was the sum you told Mr. Pitt that he owed you ? -About £ 300 . By virtue of your oath , was that the sum you mentioned ? -I think so . The sum due to me was between £ 250 and £ 300 . Did you never ...
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... believe not I forgot , or I would have put it in my pocket . Were you ever tried for perjury ? —I was . Perjury committed in what ? —In an affidavit that I swore . Court . When were you tried ? -In the year 1793 . Now , by virtue of the ...
... believe not I forgot , or I would have put it in my pocket . Were you ever tried for perjury ? —I was . Perjury committed in what ? —In an affidavit that I swore . Court . When were you tried ? -In the year 1793 . Now , by virtue of the ...
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... believe that Mr. Harrison was forcibly carried away ; but by whom , or by whose procurement , is the question . Those whom he affirms did it , he withal affirms never before to have seen ; and that he saw not his servant Perry , nor his ...
... believe that Mr. Harrison was forcibly carried away ; but by whom , or by whose procurement , is the question . Those whom he affirms did it , he withal affirms never before to have seen ; and that he saw not his servant Perry , nor his ...
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... believe they would never escape his vengeance , should he re- cover his liberty ; this rashness on his part made them less anxious to further oppose the king ; it accomplished his ruin . The people , who always interest themselves in ...
... believe they would never escape his vengeance , should he re- cover his liberty ; this rashness on his part made them less anxious to further oppose the king ; it accomplished his ruin . The people , who always interest themselves in ...
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... believe that wound was the cause of his death . Court . Do you think the deceased could have received that wound in a posture of defence ? Mr. Wilkey . I believe he could not , except he was left- handed . The defence of the prisoners ...
... believe that wound was the cause of his death . Court . Do you think the deceased could have received that wound in a posture of defence ? Mr. Wilkey . I believe he could not , except he was left- handed . The defence of the prisoners ...
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Стр. 31 - O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Стр. 31 - Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Стр. 291 - And, long since then, of bloody men, Whose deeds tradition saves; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves; Of horrid stabs in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves...
Стр. 288 - Now, my lord, having endeavoured to show that the whole of this process is altogether repugnant to every part of my life ; that it is inconsistent with my condition of health about that time ; that no rational inference can be drawn that a person is dead who suddenly disappears ; that hermitages were the constant repositories of the bones of the recluse ; that the proofs of this...
Стр. 291 - He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain! "And well...
Стр. 292 - Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done; There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone!
Стр. 287 - ... chance exposed ? And might not a place where bones lay be mentioned by a person by chance as well as found by a labourer by chance? Or is it more criminal accidentally to name where bones lie than accidentally to find where they lie?
Стр. 110 - ... procured him an advocate of rank too great to be rejected unheard, and of virtue too eminent to be heard without being believed. His merit and his calamities happened to reach the ear of the countess of Hertford, who engaged in his support with all the tenderness that is excited by pity, and all the zeal which is kindled by generosity...
Стр. 293 - And now from forth the frowning sky, from the heaven's topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice of the blood-avenging sprite : ' Thou guilty man, take up thy dead, and hide it from my sight...
Стр. 286 - About the same time, and in another field, almost close to this borough, was discovered also, in searching for gravel, another human skeleton ; but the piety of the same worthy gentleman ordered both pits to be filled up again, commendably unwilling to disturb the dead.