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Page 200 - can say of the player that he ' mouths his speech, as many players do,' or that 'he saws the air too much with his hand,' or that he 'tears a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings'; but he cannot abuse him as
Page 233 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury! foul perjury!! in the highest degree; Murder! stern murder!! in the direst degree ; All several sins, all used in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty ! Richard III. And yet Jack Downing
Page 20 - to write, print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, and malicious writing against the government of the United States, or either house of Congress, or the President, with intent to defame them, or bring them into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against them the hatred of the
Page 22 - or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good
Page 14 - bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a youth that had a turn for libelling and satire. My brother's discharge was accompanied with an order, and a very odd one, that '-'-James Franklin
Page 22 - responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal
Page 83 - the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for that reason only inhumanly murdered by the King's troops at or near Lexington and Concord, in the province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April; which sum being immediately collected, it was
Page 63 - by malicious defamations expressed in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead or the reputation of one who is living, and thereby to expose him to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule.
Page 125 - such misdemeanor must be fined not less than twenty nor more than three hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than six months.
Page 13 - Give me but the liberty of the press/' said Sheridan, " and I will give to the Minister a venal House of Peers, I will give him a corrupt and servile House of Commons, I will give him the full sway of the patronage of office, I will give him the whole host of
