ISBN: 9781458922762

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1804. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1804. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... is not necessary to enter into the merits of the paper which produced the trial. If every line of it were treason, his charge to the jury would still be false, absurd, illegal, and unconstitutional. If I stated the merits of my letter to the King, I should , imitate Lord Mansfield, and * Travel Out Of The Record. When law and reason speak plainly, we ; do Mansfield to confine them to the simple finding of the facts alledged, true or false; the discussions in the trial on account of Junius''s Letter to the King; and the fierce vengeful contradiction of the opinion of Lord Mansfield--which fill this whole paragraph, and several subsequent ones--are all such as to deserve much and, various illustration. But this is not the proper place. They will arise more fitly to our consideration in the progress of the Letters. We should do wrong to exhaust our materials unseasonably, in erecting merely the park gate and The porter''s lodge. * The following quotation from a speech delivered by Lord Chatham, on the 11th of December 1770, is taken with exactness. The reader will find it curious in itself, and very fit to be inserted here. My Lords, the verdict given in Woodfall''s trial, was guilty of printing and publishing Only ; upon which two motions were made in court ;--one, in arrest of judgment, by the defendant''s counsel, grounded upon the ambiguity of the verdict; --the other, by tb.e counsel for the crown, for a rule upon the defendant, to show cause why the verdict should not be entered up according to the legal import of the words. On both motions, a rule was granted, and.''soon after, the matter was argued before the Court of King''s Bench. The noble judge, when he delivered the opinion of the court upon the verdict, went regularly ''through'' the whole of the ... Junius, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, The Letters Of Junius (volume 1); Stat Nominis Umbra Books>Social and Cultural Studies, General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 1458922766

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ISBN: 1458922766

[EAN: 9781458922762], Livro novo, [PU: General Books], BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., The Letters of Junius (Volume 1); Stat Nominis Umbra, Junius

ISBN: 1458922766

[EAN: 9781458922762], Neubuch, [PU: General Books], BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., The Letters of Junius (Volume 1); Stat Nominis Umbra, Junius