The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Tuesday the Twenty-eighth ... [to] Friday the Thirty-first of October: And on Saturday the First ... [to] Wednesday the Fifth of November, 1794 ... Taken in Short-hand, Volumen1

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Martha Gurney, 1794 - 444 páginas
 

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Página 125 - While you enjoy the envied glory of being the unaided defenders of freedom, we fondly anticipate, in idea, the numerous blessings mankind will enjoy; if you succeed, as we ardently wish, the triple alliance (not of Crowns, but) of the people of America, France, and Britain, will give freedom to Europe, and peace to the whole world.
Página 22 - Clive, the said lord the king would have to be one) to inquire (by the oath of good and lawful men of the county...
Página 92 - Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light, by presenting it as an office which any child or idiot may fill. It requires some talents to be a common mechanic; but to be a King requires only the animal figure of man - a sort of breathing automaton. This sort of superstition may last a few years more, but it cannot long resist the awakened reason and interest of man.
Página 345 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.
Página 47 - Third, how dangerous it is by construction, and ANALOGY, to make treasons where the LETTER of the law has not done it. For such a method admits of no limits, or bounds, but runs as far and as wide as the wit and invention of accusers, and the detestation of persons accused, will carry men.
Página 23 - March in the thirty-third year of the reign of our sovereign lord the now king and on divers other days and times as well before as after at...
Página 26 - November, in the fiftyseventh year of the reign aforesaid, and on divers other days and times, as well before as after, with force and arms, at the said parish of St.
Página 27 - July, 1819; and on divers other days and times, as well before as after, with force and arms, at...
Página 13 - ... against the whole constitution and government of the country; the case of those embarked in such designs is that which I have already considered. Whether this be so, or not, is mere matter of fact ; as to which I...
Página 45 - When a Man doth compass or imagine the Death of our Lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen, or of their eldest Son and Heir...

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