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... Authority of Cicero , Quintilian , and others . - Opinions of Sir Edward Coke , Sir John Davys , Cook , Sir Matthew Hale , and Lord Langdale . Assize Sermon of Bishop Sanderson . Contrary Theory maintained by Lord Erskine . Gerald's ...
... Authority of Cicero , Quintilian , and others . - Opinions of Sir Edward Coke , Sir John Davys , Cook , Sir Matthew Hale , and Lord Langdale . Assize Sermon of Bishop Sanderson . Contrary Theory maintained by Lord Erskine . Gerald's ...
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... authority of great and venerable names . We might ask , with Cicero , " What is so kinglike , so generous , so munificent , as to bestow help on those who supplicate our aid ? to raise the oppressed , and save our fellow citizens from ...
... authority of great and venerable names . We might ask , with Cicero , " What is so kinglike , so generous , so munificent , as to bestow help on those who supplicate our aid ? to raise the oppressed , and save our fellow citizens from ...
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... authority . " In order to learn what are the noblest efforts of which oratory is capable , we instinctively turn to Athens and Demosthenes , or to Rome and Cicero , and remember that both these great speakers gained their immortal fame ...
... authority . " In order to learn what are the noblest efforts of which oratory is capable , we instinctively turn to Athens and Demosthenes , or to Rome and Cicero , and remember that both these great speakers gained their immortal fame ...
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... authority chiefly Schömann , de Comitiis Athe- niensium , a very able treatise on all that relates to the public assemblies and criminal proceedings at Athens . CH . II . ] CRIMINAL TRIALS . 43 verdict 42 [ CH . II . THE ATHENIAN COURTS .
... authority chiefly Schömann , de Comitiis Athe- niensium , a very able treatise on all that relates to the public assemblies and criminal proceedings at Athens . CH . II . ] CRIMINAL TRIALS . 43 verdict 42 [ CH . II . THE ATHENIAN COURTS .
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... authorities on the subject of the early Roman law . To understand this aright , a correct knowledge of the ancient constitu- tion of Rome was necessary ; and we know that in this respect they were singularly deficient . The writers in ...
... authorities on the subject of the early Roman law . To understand this aright , a correct knowledge of the ancient constitu- tion of Rome was necessary ; and we know that in this respect they were singularly deficient . The writers in ...
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Page 441 - Lordships, which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate by the sacred duty which he owes his Client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world, that Client and none other. To save that Client by all expedient means, to protect that Client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction...
Page 359 - The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty.
Page 356 - 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.