Pamphleteer: Dedicated to Both Houses of Parliament, to be Continued Occasionally, Volume 29Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1828 |
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... late revision of the criminal law , much of this evil has been remedied ; but much remains to be done by wise and gradual alterations . Another great auxiliary to crime , inasmuch as it has filled our jails with petty offenders , who ...
... late revision of the criminal law , much of this evil has been remedied ; but much remains to be done by wise and gradual alterations . Another great auxiliary to crime , inasmuch as it has filled our jails with petty offenders , who ...
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... late enact ment , empowering the payment of expenses on assaults on consta- bles in execution of their duty . Previous to this enactment , not above once or twice a - year were such indictments preferred , and then only in aggravated ...
... late enact ment , empowering the payment of expenses on assaults on consta- bles in execution of their duty . Previous to this enactment , not above once or twice a - year were such indictments preferred , and then only in aggravated ...
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... late years in our cri- minal code ; and many important and salutary laws have passed for the protection of the public . But , as the end of all law is the prevention of crime , and the reform of the offender , we are bound so to ...
... late years in our cri- minal code ; and many important and salutary laws have passed for the protection of the public . But , as the end of all law is the prevention of crime , and the reform of the offender , we are bound so to ...
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... late Ministry operated principally on our foreign policy ; and the change which became perceptible in our relations with the continent of Europe , soon after the death of the late Lord Londonderry , does not yet appear to have effected ...
... late Ministry operated principally on our foreign policy ; and the change which became perceptible in our relations with the continent of Europe , soon after the death of the late Lord Londonderry , does not yet appear to have effected ...
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... late war , the Duke of Wellington has made periodical visits to the fortresses on the Rhine . The object of such visits , made by the victor of Waterloo , could not be a subject of doubt to the French nation ; and instead of promoting ...
... late war , the Duke of Wellington has made periodical visits to the fortresses on the Rhine . The object of such visits , made by the victor of Waterloo , could not be a subject of doubt to the French nation ; and instead of promoting ...
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Page 98 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 521 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 511 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 507 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 509 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 506 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the...
Page 520 - O Adam, One Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not deprav'd from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 101 - ... let me exhort and conjure you never to suffer an invasion of your political constitution, however minute the instance may appear, to pass by, without a determined, persevering resistance. One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to,day is doctrine.
Page 510 - ... or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Page 99 - King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England relative to Larceny and 30 other Offences connected therewith...