 | George Bancroft - 1858 - 454 pagina’s
...prosecute that spirit as criminal ; to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. " My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 pagina’s
...supported by eleven provinces more. He felt, as Burke at the same period truly and finely said, that he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.* There remained then only the hope, perhaps too sanguine, yet such as full success had crowned in the... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1861 - 30 pagina’s
...to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual at the bar. I am not ripe to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pagina’s
...ordinary ideas of criminal justice tor this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing np an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult...Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the bar. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted^... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 pagina’s
...to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an...Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Ealeigh) at the bar. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, intrusted... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pagina’s
...to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures as Sir... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 584 pagina’s
...justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the bar,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1873 - 562 pagina’s
...to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest ; I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people." l But when, on account of a provision in the Constitution obviously intended only... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 652 pagina’s
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 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 566 pagina’s
...to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest ; I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people." 1 But when, on account of a provision in the Constitution obviously intended only... | |
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... a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. 
