The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, Before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855Published for the author, 1855 - 221 páginas |
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... Liberty , and the pursuit of Happiness . I am charged with words against what John Wesley named , the " Sum of all Vil- lanies , " against a national crime so great , that it made freethinking Mr. Jefferson , with all his " French ...
... Liberty , and the pursuit of Happiness . I am charged with words against what John Wesley named , the " Sum of all Vil- lanies , " against a national crime so great , that it made freethinking Mr. Jefferson , with all his " French ...
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... liberty , and even the Estate of the subjected " citizens . " All Probate Judges will belong to the family of man - stealers . Faneuil Hall will be shut , or open only for a " Union Meeting , " where the ruler calls together his menials ...
... liberty , and even the Estate of the subjected " citizens . " All Probate Judges will belong to the family of man - stealers . Faneuil Hall will be shut , or open only for a " Union Meeting , " where the ruler calls together his menials ...
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... Liberty . If I am to be arraigned for any act , I regard it as a special good fortune that I am charged with such deeds , with seeking to arouse the noblest emotions of Human Nature ; and by means of the grand- est Ideas which Human ...
... Liberty . If I am to be arraigned for any act , I regard it as a special good fortune that I am charged with such deeds , with seeking to arouse the noblest emotions of Human Nature ; and by means of the grand- est Ideas which Human ...
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... liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . Second , These rights are unalienable ; they can be alienated only by the possessor thereof ; the father cannot alienate them for the son , nor the son for the father ; nor the husband for the ...
... liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . Second , These rights are unalienable ; they can be alienated only by the possessor thereof ; the father cannot alienate them for the son , nor the son for the father ; nor the husband for the ...
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... Liberty . " That is a religious idea ; and when men pray for the " Reign of Justice " and the " Kingdom of Heaven " to come on earth politically , I suppose they mean that there may be a Commonwealth where every man has his natural ...
... Liberty . " That is a religious idea ; and when men pray for the " Reign of Justice " and the " Kingdom of Heaven " to come on earth politically , I suppose they mean that there may be a Commonwealth where every man has his natural ...
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Página 148 - That the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land...
Página 101 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Página 189 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Página 191 - Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
Página 96 - Gentlemen, you shall not be dismissed till we have a verdict that the court will accept, and you shall be locked up without meat, drink, fire, and tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it.
Página 119 - I discharged every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity, as absolute and as palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image...
Página 161 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Página 132 - Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering; but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Página 111 - I hope will not be taken amiss of me to say in this place, to wit, the practice of informations for libels is a sword in the hands of a wicked king, and an arrant coward to cut down and destroy the innocent; the one cannot, because of his high station, and the other dares not, because of his want of courage, revenge himself in another manner.
Página 31 - And every parish shall maintain a tithe pig metropolitan." Baxter beginning to speak again, Jefferies reviled him; "Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.