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... trial in Lucian . — Speech - writers at Athens . Instance of Barratry in an Attempt to sink a Ship . - List of celebrated Orations never spoken . - Fondness of Athenians for Judicial Trials . - Aristophanes and the Comedy of the Wasps ...
... trial in Lucian . — Speech - writers at Athens . Instance of Barratry in an Attempt to sink a Ship . - List of celebrated Orations never spoken . - Fondness of Athenians for Judicial Trials . - Aristophanes and the Comedy of the Wasps ...
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... Trials held in the open air . — State of the Forum when Cicero defended Milo . Account of the Death of Clodius . - Result of the Trial . - Vicissitudes of the Forum . — Jurisdiction of the Prætors . The Emperor acting as a Judge at ...
... Trials held in the open air . — State of the Forum when Cicero defended Milo . Account of the Death of Clodius . - Result of the Trial . - Vicissitudes of the Forum . — Jurisdiction of the Prætors . The Emperor acting as a Judge at ...
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... Trial clothed in sackcloth and ashes . A Roman Advocate cramming for a case . - Lu- dicrous instances of legal ... Trials of Bassus and Priscus . - Defence by taking legal Objection , or on the Merits.— Cicero cross - examining . The ...
... Trial clothed in sackcloth and ashes . A Roman Advocate cramming for a case . - Lu- dicrous instances of legal ... Trials of Bassus and Priscus . - Defence by taking legal Objection , or on the Merits.— Cicero cross - examining . The ...
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... Trial of Sextius Roscius on the Charge of Mur- der . Facts of the Case , and Speech of Cicero . - Speech for Roscius the Actor . - Defence of Cluentius . A Female Mon- ster . Cicero's Description of the Duties of a Juryman ? - An ...
... Trial of Sextius Roscius on the Charge of Mur- der . Facts of the Case , and Speech of Cicero . - Speech for Roscius the Actor . - Defence of Cluentius . A Female Mon- ster . Cicero's Description of the Duties of a Juryman ? - An ...
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... Trials , Bishop Sherlock's " Trial of the Witnesses . ” — A Bull and a Pig solemnly tried and hanged . - Curious Text - books . - Decrees of Love pronounced in the Court of Cupid . - The Stylus Parlamenti on the personal Appearance and ...
... Trials , Bishop Sherlock's " Trial of the Witnesses . ” — A Bull and a Pig solemnly tried and hanged . - Curious Text - books . - Decrees of Love pronounced in the Court of Cupid . - The Stylus Parlamenti on the personal Appearance and ...
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Page 106 - T was on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.