Contributions to the North British and Edinburgh reviews, 1844-1874 [by J. Moncreiff. 21 extracts to which a gen. title and contents have been prefixed]. |
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... duty to prevent the public from believing this book to be ' true . ' Nor have these unwarrantable attacks been confined to the professional pages of the legal journal ; they have been repeated in several shapes , all bearing traces of ...
... duty to prevent the public from believing this book to be ' true . ' Nor have these unwarrantable attacks been confined to the professional pages of the legal journal ; they have been repeated in several shapes , all bearing traces of ...
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... duty on his colleague , chose to try his friend himself , and on the verdict of guilty being returned , exclaimed , That's checkmate to you , Matthew . ' The story rests on the evidence of George Ferguson , afterwards Lord Hermand , who ...
... duty on his colleague , chose to try his friend himself , and on the verdict of guilty being returned , exclaimed , That's checkmate to you , Matthew . ' The story rests on the evidence of George Ferguson , afterwards Lord Hermand , who ...
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... duty is at least as much concerned with the performances of those within the circle as in guarding its approaches . When an author has overpassed the clouds and mists of his dawn , and reached his meridian , he has attained the summit ...
... duty is at least as much concerned with the performances of those within the circle as in guarding its approaches . When an author has overpassed the clouds and mists of his dawn , and reached his meridian , he has attained the summit ...
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... duty , were we to omit , in this estimate of his merits as a public instructor , the religious tendency of his writings - the more especially as that is a character which he chiefly affects . It is much his habit and mood to preach , ex ...
... duty , were we to omit , in this estimate of his merits as a public instructor , the religious tendency of his writings - the more especially as that is a character which he chiefly affects . It is much his habit and mood to preach , ex ...
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... duty of censure , we feel as one might do who has told his friend some disagreeable truth long withheld , and now that it is over , we cannot pass to the review of Cromwell's Letters , without a parting word of esteem and admiration ...
... duty of censure , we feel as one might do who has told his friend some disagreeable truth long withheld , and now that it is over , we cannot pass to the review of Cromwell's Letters , without a parting word of esteem and admiration ...
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Página 265 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 582 - Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the. base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Página 250 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Página 265 - Queen, and the others respectively by the President of the United States, the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and the Emperor of Brazil.
Página 582 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Página 262 - That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters, is, and hath been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people, ever since the Reformation, they having been reformed from Popery by Presbyters, and, therefore, ought to be abolished.
Página 272 - due diligence" referred to in the first and third of the said rules ought to be exercised by neutral governments in exact proportion to the risks to which either of the belligerents may be exposed, from a failure to fulfil the obligations of neutrality on their part...
Página 184 - Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannonshot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.
Página 209 - His eyes vacant and spiritless ; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman than of a refined philosopher.
Página 279 - Europe have reason to be thankful, that he ' went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...