A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Τόμος 25Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818 |
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Σελίδα 265 - lord the king—or of our lady his queen ; or of their eldest son and heir ; or if a man do levy war against THE KING in his realm, or be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm, giving them aid and comfort, and thereof be proveably attainted of open deed by people of their condition.
Σελίδα 889 - The troubles of my heart are enlarged : О bring Thou me out of my distresses ! Look upon mine affliction and my pain;, and forgive all my sins ! Consider mine enemies for they are. many ;. and they hate me with a cruel
Σελίδα 637 - man shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor we will not pass upon him, nor condemn him,
Σελίδα 673 - themselves to legislators of their own making : whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery, under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from
Σελίδα 673 - or any part of (the community, masters, or arbitrary disposers of the lives, liberties or fortunes of the people. The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property ; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative is, that there may be laws made, and rules
Σελίδα 675 - Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty, will be borne by the people, without mutiny or murmur; but if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under,
Σελίδα 273 - whose writings I have often had occasion to cite, expresses this sentiment with admirable justness and force— " The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul
Σελίδα 155 - Also, That the farther provision by the said act, ' 'that no person who has an office, or place of profit, under the king, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of
Σελίδα 447 - man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or our lady his queen, or of their eldest son and heir, and thereof be provahly attainted of open dee-J by the people of their condition." Now, gentlemen, you will observe that before this statute was passed, treason was a crime undefined by the statute law ; when a man was indicted
Σελίδα 673 - What I have said here, concerning the legislative in general, holds true also concerning the supreme executor, who, having a double trust put in him, both to have a part in the legislative and the supreme execution of the law, acts against both, when he goes about to set up