Selections from the Writings of the Late J. Sydney Taylor: With a Brief Sketch of His LifeC. Gilpin, 1843 - 496 páginas |
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Página xxxiii
... crime and punishment , is well known . That great journal took and kept the lead in the warfare which was waged against the Moloch of the statute - book , during many eventful years in which the struggle was going on between the ...
... crime and punishment , is well known . That great journal took and kept the lead in the warfare which was waged against the Moloch of the statute - book , during many eventful years in which the struggle was going on between the ...
Página xxxiv
... crime and misery by acts of vicious legislation . Look at his opposition to the enact- ment of that nuisance , called the Beer Bill , which deluged the country with thousands of new tippling - houses , " dens of dissipation " that ...
... crime and misery by acts of vicious legislation . Look at his opposition to the enact- ment of that nuisance , called the Beer Bill , which deluged the country with thousands of new tippling - houses , " dens of dissipation " that ...
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... crime of infanticide occasioned by certain provisions of the new poor - law . At such a time , when the issue involved the life of the accused , we may be sure an appeal by Sydney Taylor was not powerless . The verdict , notwithstanding ...
... crime of infanticide occasioned by certain provisions of the new poor - law . At such a time , when the issue involved the life of the accused , we may be sure an appeal by Sydney Taylor was not powerless . The verdict , notwithstanding ...
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... crime was that of pre- vention , which is much more efficient than punishment . The governments and legislators of modern days have reversed the plan - with them prevention is of no consequence , and punish- ment is all in all ...
... crime was that of pre- vention , which is much more efficient than punishment . The governments and legislators of modern days have reversed the plan - with them prevention is of no consequence , and punish- ment is all in all ...
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... crimes of theft or robbery , if not altogether extinct , were scarcely known . We allude to this example at present , merely to show that crime may be repressed and property secured from depredation by laws which do not offer human ...
... crimes of theft or robbery , if not altogether extinct , were scarcely known . We allude to this example at present , merely to show that crime may be repressed and property secured from depredation by laws which do not offer human ...
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Página 417 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Página xxxii - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Página xliv - Muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust. But fairer wreaths are due — though never paid — To those who, posted at the shrine of Truth, Have fallen in her defence.
Página 276 - When a Prince to the fate of the Peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming, In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a Chief of the People should fall.
Página xxxii - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Página 456 - WHEREAS the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom.
Página 323 - ... whole he is taught, practice must also be the whole he will ever know ; if he be uninstructed in the elements and first principles upon which the rule of practice is founded, the least variation from established precedents will totally distract and bewilder him : ita lex...
Página 457 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Página xxxii - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Página 437 - The good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger and...