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... magistrate , were doing that which you must have known you had no right to do ; the demand was therefore not only illegal , but arbitrary , capricious , and ty- rannical ; and on these grounds ought to have been resisted , even if my ...
... magistrate , were doing that which you must have known you had no right to do ; the demand was therefore not only illegal , but arbitrary , capricious , and ty- rannical ; and on these grounds ought to have been resisted , even if my ...
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... magistrate from censure , for having , in the exercise of his authority , committed illegal , oppressive , and scandalous acts ; in effect , asserting a general principle that magistrates can do no wrong . Your Secretary in his letter ...
... magistrate from censure , for having , in the exercise of his authority , committed illegal , oppressive , and scandalous acts ; in effect , asserting a general principle that magistrates can do no wrong . Your Secretary in his letter ...
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... magistrate from farther animadversion , and to establish a precedent by which all magistrates might in future tyrannize with impunity . What could be a more direct violation than this of the principles of the British constitution , as ...
... magistrate from farther animadversion , and to establish a precedent by which all magistrates might in future tyrannize with impunity . What could be a more direct violation than this of the principles of the British constitution , as ...
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... magistrate even improperly , he would have been entitled to a fair trial before the Supreme Court of Judicature . No foreigner , or Asiatic , even trading unlawfully , could have been transported by the mere fat of a Governor - General ...
... magistrate even improperly , he would have been entitled to a fair trial before the Supreme Court of Judicature . No foreigner , or Asiatic , even trading unlawfully , could have been transported by the mere fat of a Governor - General ...
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... magistrate is dropped , and my being without a licence is the great crime for which I am to be sent to Europe , without a moment's delay to settle my affairs , and my person directed to be seized . Is it not rather strange , that ...
... magistrate is dropped , and my being without a licence is the great crime for which I am to be sent to Europe , without a moment's delay to settle my affairs , and my person directed to be seized . Is it not rather strange , that ...
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Seite 247 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 423 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India...
Seite 289 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home! A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which seek through the world is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home!
Seite 56 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Seite 50 - ... the glory of the English law consists in clearly defining the times, the causes, and the extent, when, wherefore, and to what degree, the imprisonment of the subject may be lawful. This it is, which induces the absolute necessity of expressing upon every commitment the reason for which it is made : that the court upon a habeas corpus may examine into its validity ; and according to the circumstances of the case may discharge, admit to bail, or remand the prisoner.
Seite 463 - We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care ; we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
Seite 247 - English press is new; it is a proud and melancholy distinction. Before the great earthquake of the French revolution had swallowed up all the asylums of free discussion on the continent, we enjoyed that privilege, indeed, more fully than others...
Seite 499 - Thou art streaming on through their green arcades, And the quivering leaves that have caught thy glow, Like fire-flies glance to the pools below. I look'd on the mountains — a vapour lay Folding their heights in its dark array : Thou brakcst forth — and the mist became A crown and a mantle of living flame.
Seite 54 - ... that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed — that is, an extension of the revenue. When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty that, "in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four.
Seite 213 - England, which were an heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good of their own private families, much less for the regulating of Companies, and foreign commerce.