The Romance of the Forum, Or, Narratives, Scenes, and Anecdotes from Courts of JusticeCornish, Lamport & Company, 1853 - Всего страниц: 308 |
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... proved ; but some points of law were raised by the accused's counsel . One argument was that all the letters read in court were addressed from London , and inter- cepted at the General Post Office , in Lombard St .; and that , therefore ...
... proved ; but some points of law were raised by the accused's counsel . One argument was that all the letters read in court were addressed from London , and inter- cepted at the General Post Office , in Lombard St .; and that , therefore ...
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... prove my attendance the complete hour ; but the Court , on hearing that explanation , and seeing that I could gain nothing by it , directed my acquittal , and the Jury acquitted . There is a gentleman of high honor come . here from ...
... prove my attendance the complete hour ; but the Court , on hearing that explanation , and seeing that I could gain nothing by it , directed my acquittal , and the Jury acquitted . There is a gentleman of high honor come . here from ...
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... proved in vain , for while Lord Clonmel was summing up , Jackson himself fatally interrupted the Judge , and endeavored to explain some mysterious pas- sages contained in the letters sworn to , as his , by Cockayne . In doing so , the ...
... proved in vain , for while Lord Clonmel was summing up , Jackson himself fatally interrupted the Judge , and endeavored to explain some mysterious pas- sages contained in the letters sworn to , as his , by Cockayne . In doing so , the ...
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... proved to be done , or at least the body be found . " He gives his reason for coming to that conclusion , in the following brief , but startling narrative , which furnishes a great argument for the rule adopted , and which also affords ...
... proved to be done , or at least the body be found . " He gives his reason for coming to that conclusion , in the following brief , but startling narrative , which furnishes a great argument for the rule adopted , and which also affords ...
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... proved ineffec- tual . On Saturday , August 25 , the three prisoners were exa- mined , when Joan and Richard , on being confronted with John , denied the charge in the most positive terms ; as also an accusation made by John , of their ...
... proved ineffec- tual . On Saturday , August 25 , the three prisoners were exa- mined , when Joan and Richard , on being confronted with John , denied the charge in the most positive terms ; as also an accusation made by John , of their ...
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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. 293 - 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. 290 - 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. 293 - 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. 294 - 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. 289 - ... 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. 295 - 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. 288 - 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.