The Family Library (Harper)., כרך 431832 |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 204 - ... he came he would go into the same court, and there reverently kneeling down in the sight of them all duly ask his father's blessing. And if it fortuned that his father and he at readings in Lincoln's Inn met together (as they sometime did) notwithstanding his high office he would offer in argument the preeminence to his father, though he for his office sake would refuse to take it.
עמוד 65 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
עמוד 174 - Excluding the old council of forty, a regular court of criminal judicature, not only from the investigation of treasonable charges, but of several other crimes of magnitude, they inquired, they judged, they punished, according to what they called reason of state. The public eye never penetrated the mystery of their proceedings ; the accused was sometimes not heard, never confronted with witnesses ; the condemnation was secret as the inquiry, the punishment undivulged like both...
עמוד 124 - Antiquaries appear to hesitate concerning the date and even the native country of these horses ; for by some they have been assigned to the Roman school, and to the age of Nero ; by others to the Greeks of Chio, at a much earlier period. Though far from deserving a place among the choicest specimens of art, their possession, if we may trust their most generally received history, has always * Of this holy ware the Venetians obtained a large allotment.
עמוד 174 - The public eye never penetrated the mystery of their proceedings ; the accused was sometimes not heard—- never confronted with witnesses : the condemnation was secret as the inquiry ; the punishment undivulged like both."* Nor was this all : instituted solely for the cognizance of state crimes, this tribunal gradually attributed to itself the control of every branch of government, and exercised despotic influence over the questions of peace and war, over fiscal enactments, military arrangements,...