Hortensius: Or, The Advocate: An Historical EssayJ. Murray, 1849 - 495 páginas |
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... mentioned , locked in my chamber , and how one of the inner doors and the front door made a noise , which never happened before , and that my wife seemed to have put rouge upon her cheeks . Upon this I went home , and desired the maid ...
... mentioned , locked in my chamber , and how one of the inner doors and the front door made a noise , which never happened before , and that my wife seemed to have put rouge upon her cheeks . Upon this I went home , and desired the maid ...
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... chap . 1 . In justice , however , to Antiphon , it must be mentioned that these tetralogies are supposed to have been mere exercises of skill , and not written for any real occasion . of flight of an arrow shot by the other , D 6.
... chap . 1 . In justice , however , to Antiphon , it must be mentioned that these tetralogies are supposed to have been mere exercises of skill , and not written for any real occasion . of flight of an arrow shot by the other , D 6.
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... mention is made by Latin writers , were those contained in the Pa- pirian code . These were such as were from time to time ... mentioned that he , in his Scienza di Nuovo , anticipated some of the discoveries of the German historian ...
... mention is made by Latin writers , were those contained in the Pa- pirian code . These were such as were from time to time ... mentioned that he , in his Scienza di Nuovo , anticipated some of the discoveries of the German historian ...
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... mentioned by Pomponius , which were passed in the Comitia Centuriata or assemblies of the whole people both populus and plebs , burghers and plebeians , held in the Campus Martius , under the auspices of the consuls , or , in their ...
... mentioned by Pomponius , which were passed in the Comitia Centuriata or assemblies of the whole people both populus and plebs , burghers and plebeians , held in the Campus Martius , under the auspices of the consuls , or , in their ...
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... mentioned as a senator . The extent of its legislative power and the force and meaning of the senatus consulta have been the subject of much controversy . But Cicero includes them as part of the jus civile2 , and Pomponius , after ...
... mentioned as a senator . The extent of its legislative power and the force and meaning of the senatus consulta have been the subject of much controversy . But Cicero includes them as part of the jus civile2 , and Pomponius , after ...
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Página 106 - T was on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Página 310 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Página 173 - That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused...
Página 383 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 371 - The law against witches does not prove there be any ; but it punishes the malice of those people, that use such means to take away men's lives : if one should profess that by turning his hat thrice, and crying buz, he could take away a man's life, though in truth he could do no such thing : yet this were a just law made by the state, that whosoever should turn his hat thrice, and cry buz, with an intention to take away a man's life, shall be put to death.
Página 350 - I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it.
Página 419 - It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply ; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; so that it will take thirty years to decide, whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations, belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off.
Página 23 - High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Página 72 - Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.
Página 429 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.