Twelve Months in an English Prison

Front Cover
Lee and Shepard, 1883 - Spiritualism - 478 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 324 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 176 - Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace of Our said Lady the Queen, her Crown and dignity.
Page 277 - ... not only in this country, but in England and on the Continent, whether to serve her own purposes, or for any other reason, is without cause or justification.
Page 169 - Museum authorities of course proved a primd facie case against me, and as my solicitor advised me to reserve my defence, owing to the difficulty of getting up my witness from Lichfield in reasonable time, I was duly committed for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. I had often read before that people had been committed for trial, but till that moment I had no idea what a very unpleasant sensation it really is. However, as I was a person of hitherto unblemished character, and...
Page 264 - Imperial Councilor of Russia ; the Countess of Caithness and Duchesse de Pomar ; the Hon, JL O'Sullivan, sometime Minister of USA at the Court of Lisbon ; M. Favre Clavairoz, late Consul-General of France at Trieste; the late Emperors of Russia and France ; Presidents Thiers and Lincoln, etc., etc.
Page 242 - I pass is, that you be imprisoned, and kept to hard labor, for the term of twelve calendar months.
Page 263 - ... President of the Mathematical Society of London ; the late Dr. Robert Chambers, FRSE ; the late Dr. William Gregory, FRSE, Professor of Chemistry in University of Edinburgh ; the late Lord Brougham; Dr. Lockhart Robertson, FRS, long one of the editors of the Journal of Mental Science; the late I). J. Elliotson, FRS, sometime President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London; the late W. Howitt; the late Dr.
Page 264 - Judges and ex-Judges of the United States Courts; "Victor Hugo; Baron and Baroness Von Vay; *W. Lloyd Garrison, USA; "Hon. R. Dale Owen, USA; "Hon. JW Edmonds, USA; "Epes Sargent; "Baron du Potet; "Count A. de Gasparin; "Baron L. de Guldenstttbbe, etc., etc.

Bibliographic information