The Life of Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., Ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland: From His Private Correspondence |
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... existed only in cases of capital felony ; consequently the case was proceeded with , when a verdict of guilty was returned against the prisoner . In the opinion of Napier this verdict was void because the jury were illegally constituted ...
... existed only in cases of capital felony ; consequently the case was proceeded with , when a verdict of guilty was returned against the prisoner . In the opinion of Napier this verdict was void because the jury were illegally constituted ...
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... existed in the House of Commons . The Whigs , who were in power ; those Conservatives who still adhered to the fallen fortunes of Sir Robert Peel ; and the Protectionists under the nominal leadership of Lord George Bentinck . Thus on ...
... existed in the House of Commons . The Whigs , who were in power ; those Conservatives who still adhered to the fallen fortunes of Sir Robert Peel ; and the Protectionists under the nominal leadership of Lord George Bentinck . Thus on ...
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... existed an imperial and not a mere Irish grant for her relief . Then he concluded by censuring the Government for its persistence in temporary ex- pedients unaccompanied by those remedial measures which should have been introduced at ...
... existed an imperial and not a mere Irish grant for her relief . Then he concluded by censuring the Government for its persistence in temporary ex- pedients unaccompanied by those remedial measures which should have been introduced at ...
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... existed . Nothing can be kinder than the tone of the letters of the Lord- Lieutenant to the Attorney - General , either when asking him for advice or when offering him some grace- ful act of hospitality , and Napier reciprocated these ...
... existed . Nothing can be kinder than the tone of the letters of the Lord- Lieutenant to the Attorney - General , either when asking him for advice or when offering him some grace- ful act of hospitality , and Napier reciprocated these ...
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... existed , and therefore contained matter totally un- necessary to be affirmed at the present day . Hence , he said , he had drawn up a form of a single oath which did away with the specific declarations required from Roman THE TURNING ...
... existed , and therefore contained matter totally un- necessary to be affirmed at the present day . Hence , he said , he had drawn up a form of a single oath which did away with the specific declarations required from Roman THE TURNING ...
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Page 383 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 255 - God ; and in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments I will use the Form in ' the said Book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful
Page 282 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 382 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 231 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 114 - ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
Page 269 - I may assume that the awful Author of our being is the Author of our place in the order of existence, — and that, having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to His, He has in and by that disposition virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us.
Page 187 - ... a man. The matter changeth, the custom, the contracts, the commerce, the dispositions, educations, and tempers of men and societies, change in a long tract of time, and so must their laws in some measure be changed, or they will not be useful for their state and condition; and besides all this, time is the wisest thing under heaven.
Page 254 - I AB do solemnly make the following Declaration: "I assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and to the book of Common Prayer and of the ordering of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 283 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.