Imperial Reference Library: Comprising a General Encylopædia ...Syndicate Publishing Company, 1898 |
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Página 1757 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Página 1757 - THE other remaining offence, that of kidnapping, being [ 219 ] the forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or child, from their own country, and sending them into another, was capital by the Jewish law.
Página 1668 - ... prophetic poetry. He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented; he unites energy with copiousness, and dignity with variety. In his sentiments there is uncommon elevation and majesty; in his imagery the utmost propriety, elegance, dignity, and diversity; in his language uncommon beauty and energy; and, notwithstanding the obscurity of his subjects, a surprising degree of clearness and simplicity. To these we may add...
Página 1625 - The indictment is then said to be found, and the party stands indicted. But, to find a bill, there must at least twelve of the jury agree : for...
Página 1607 - Closely allied to the foregoing are cases, where a person, although not positively non compos, or insane, is yet of such great weakness of mind, as to be unable to guard himself against imposition, or to resist importunity or undue influence.
Página 1641 - By instinct, I mean a natural blind impulse to certain actions, without having any end in view, without deliberation, and very often without any conception of what we do.
Página 1773 - ... race, and to teach the truth. It is, perhaps, not too much to say of him that the system, of ethics and morality which he taught is the purest which has ever originated in the history of the world independent of the divine revelation in the Bible, and that he has exerted a greater influence for good upon our race than any other uninspired sage of antiquity.
Página 1672 - The theory he advances is, that the Italian was formed from the gradual corruption of the classic Latin, without the intervention of any foreign influence; or, to use his own words, that " it originated from abandoning in common conversation the classic, grammatical, and correct Latin, and generally adopting, In its stead, a vulgar mode of speech, incorrect in structure and vicious in pronunciation.
Página 1625 - ... they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution : for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or accusation, which is afterwards to be tried and determined ; and the grand jury are only to inquire upon their oaths, whether there be sufficient cause to call upon the party to answer it.
Página 1643 - Insurrection is a rising against civil or political authority ; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of law in a city or State.