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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... moral sense , appointed solely that they might serve as tools for the oppres- sion of the People . Among these infamous men was George Jef- freys , of whom Lord Campbell says , " He has been so much abused that I began my critical ...
... moral sense , appointed solely that they might serve as tools for the oppres- sion of the People . Among these infamous men was George Jef- freys , of whom Lord Campbell says , " He has been so much abused that I began my critical ...
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... morals beyond the grossness of that indecent age , ostentatiously living in public concubinage , a notorious swearer in public and private . But he knew no law above the will of the hand that fed and could advance him , no justice which ...
... morals beyond the grossness of that indecent age , ostentatiously living in public concubinage , a notorious swearer in public and private . But he knew no law above the will of the hand that fed and could advance him , no justice which ...
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... moral instinct of human nature , and look not merely to the letter of a particular enactment , but also to the spirit and general purpose of law itself , which is justice between man and The wicked Judge , looking only to the power ...
... moral instinct of human nature , and look not merely to the letter of a particular enactment , but also to the spirit and general purpose of law itself , which is justice between man and The wicked Judge , looking only to the power ...
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... moral sense in their own conscious- ness . Nay , it seems sometimes as if the moral sense became extinct , and the legal letter took the place of the spirit of Justice which gives life to the People . So they look to the special statute ...
... moral sense in their own conscious- ness . Nay , it seems sometimes as if the moral sense became extinct , and the legal letter took the place of the spirit of Justice which gives life to the People . So they look to the special statute ...
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... moral justice , . . . the impulses of natural equity , such as . . . would knock off the rough corners of the common law and loosen the fetters of artificial and technical equity . " 99 2 Commonly in America , as in England , for judges ...
... moral justice , . . . the impulses of natural equity , such as . . . would knock off the rough corners of the common law and loosen the fetters of artificial and technical equity . " 99 2 Commonly in America , as in England , for judges ...
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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.