Speeches of Lord Erskine, when at the Bar, on Miscellaneous Subjects, Volum 5J. Ridgway, 1812 - 246 pàgines |
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Pàgina 75 - ... upon the very same title that I am. I really think, that for wise men this is not judicious; for sober men, not decent; for minds tinctured with humanity, not mild and merciful.
Pàgina 187 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Pàgina 187 - For it is not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it. Neither was it mine adversary, that did magnify himself against me : for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him. But it was even thou, my companion : my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Pàgina 11 - is very difficult to define the invisible line that divides perfect " and partial insanity; but it must rest upon circumstances duly " to be weighed and considered both by the judge and jury, lest on " the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards the defects of " human nature, or, on the other side, too great an indulgence
Pàgina 22 - ... and throwing them into the river which surrounded the tower, where the Princess received them in a boat. There existed, of course, no tower, no imprisonment, no writing in cherry-juice, no river, no boat ; but the whole the inveterate phantom of a morbid imagination. I immediately,' continued Lord Mansfield,
Pàgina 46 - There have, indeed, been unhappy lunatics who, from ideas too often mixing themselves with insanity, have intruded themselves into the palace, but no malicious attack has ever been made upon the King to be settled by a trial. His Majesty's character and conduct have been a safer shield than guards, or than laws. Gentlemen, I wish to continue to that sacred life that best of all securities. I seek to continue it under that protection where it has been so long protected. We are not to do evil that...
Pàgina 36 - that all was not over — that a great work was to be finished;", and there he remained in prayer, the victim of the same melancholy visitation. Gentlemen, these are the facts, freed from even the possibility of artifice or disguise; because the testimony to support them will be beyond all doubt...
Pàgina 11 - Some persons, that have a competent use of 'reason in respect of some subjects, are yet under a particular dementia in respect of some particular discourses, subjects, or applications. Or else it is partial in respect of degrees; and this is the condition of very many, especially melancholy persons, who, for the most part, discover their defect in excessive fears and griefs, and yet are not wholly destitute of the use of reason...
Pàgina 182 - This wise and politic restraint beats down, by the habits of the mind, even a propensity to incestuous commerce, and opposes those inclinations which nature, for wise purposes, has implanted in our breasts at the approach of the other sex. It holds the mind in chains against the seductions of beauty. It is a moral feeling in perpetual opposition to human infirmity. It is like an angel from heaven placed to guard us from propensities which are evil.
Pàgina 179 - ... he enjoyed before the adultery, and which the adulterer has deprived him of? You know that it will not. Ask your own hearts the question, and you will receive the same answer. I should be glad to know, then, upon what principle, as it regards the private justice which the plaintiff has a right to, or upon what principle, as the example of that justice affects the public and the remotest generations of mankind, you can reduce this demand even in a single farthing.