Speeches of Lord Erskine: While at the Bar, Band 2Callaghan & Company, 1876 - 533 Seiten |
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... whole administration of justice , that if it be well proved you cannot fail to give it your stigma , by a verdict against the defendant . Gentlemen , the particular passages which I shall put my finger upon in this libel , it will now ...
... whole administration of justice , that if it be well proved you cannot fail to give it your stigma , by a verdict against the defendant . Gentlemen , the particular passages which I shall put my finger upon in this libel , it will now ...
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... a charge , unless the jury , on examination and com- parison of the whole matter written or published , shall be satisfied that the particular passages charged as criminal , when explained by the con- text 16 MR . ERSKINE'S SPEECH ON THE.
... a charge , unless the jury , on examination and com- parison of the whole matter written or published , shall be satisfied that the particular passages charged as criminal , when explained by the con- text 16 MR . ERSKINE'S SPEECH ON THE.
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... mutilated as it is ; for the information charges , that , with intention to vilify the House of Commons , the defendant published the whole book , describing it on the record by its title : " A 2 B TRIAL OF JOHN STOCKDALE . 17.
... mutilated as it is ; for the information charges , that , with intention to vilify the House of Commons , the defendant published the whole book , describing it on the record by its title : " A 2 B TRIAL OF JOHN STOCKDALE . 17.
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... and shall have read the whole of it with impartial attention ; if , after the performance of this duty , you can return here , and with clear consciences pronounce upon your oaths that the impression 18 MR . ERSKINE'S SPEECH ON THE.
... and shall have read the whole of it with impartial attention ; if , after the performance of this duty , you can return here , and with clear consciences pronounce upon your oaths that the impression 18 MR . ERSKINE'S SPEECH ON THE.
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... whole scope of it will be discovered to be this : that , in the opinion of the author , Mr. Hastings had been accused of mal- administration in India , from the heat and spleen of political divisions in Parliament , and not from any ...
... whole scope of it will be discovered to be this : that , in the opinion of the author , Mr. Hastings had been accused of mal- administration in India , from the heat and spleen of political divisions in Parliament , and not from any ...
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Seite 588 - ... is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; — they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 588 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Seite 206 - ... will entirely lose its force when it is shown (by a seasonable exertion of the laws) that the press cannot be abused to any bad purpose, without incurring a suitable punishment ; whereas it never can be used to any good one when under the control of an inspector. So true will it be found, that to censure the licentiousness is to / maintain the liberty of the press.
Seite 205 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion, and government.
Seite 152 - This species of universal subserviency, that makes the very servant who waits behind your chair the arbiter of your life and fortune, has such a tendency to degrade and abase mankind, and to deprive them of that assured and liberal state of mind, which alone can make us what we ought to be, that I vow to God I would sooner bring myself to put a man to immediate death for opinions I disliked...
Seite 204 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. [ 152 ] Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public : to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press : but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Seite 514 - The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of mankind, are indeed sacred things; and if any public measure is proved mischievously to affect them, the objection ought to be fatal to that measure, even if no charter at all could be set up against it.
Seite 66 - ... adverting to the exact measure of wickedness and injustice necessary to their execution, and complaining only of the excess as the immorality, considering her authority as a dispensation for breaking the commands of God, and the breach of them as only punishable when contrary to the ordinances of man ? " Such a proceeding, Gentlemen, begets serious reflections. It would be better, perhaps, for the masters and the servants of all such governments to join in supplication that the great Author of...
Seite 389 - And further to fulfil, perfect, and bring to effect their most evil and wicked treason and treasonable...
Seite 63 - To be governed at all, they must be governed with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united their efforts to support an authority — which Heaven never gave — by means which it never can sanction.