The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1811 - English poetry |
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... things : or , in other words , if he is not ever unavoidably determined in point of time by the circum- stances he is in , and causes he is under , to do that one thing he does , and not possibly to do any other . " The first argument ...
... things : or , in other words , if he is not ever unavoidably determined in point of time by the circum- stances he is in , and causes he is under , to do that one thing he does , and not possibly to do any other . " The first argument ...
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... thing greater would have been ac- complished . After a variety of other observations , he then turned to what applied to him more perso- nally ; and thought that the dignity and the decency of the house , and the feeling that was due to ...
... thing greater would have been ac- complished . After a variety of other observations , he then turned to what applied to him more perso- nally ; and thought that the dignity and the decency of the house , and the feeling that was due to ...
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... thing to the discretion of judges . It would be better to have no laws at all , than to leave the de- grees of punishment to the arbitrary discretion of the judges . So dif- ferently were the minds of men constituted from the difference ...
... thing to the discretion of judges . It would be better to have no laws at all , than to leave the de- grees of punishment to the arbitrary discretion of the judges . So dif- ferently were the minds of men constituted from the difference ...
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... thing to revise many of our laws , especially those that almost solely affected the lower classes , which had been ... things , to avoid placing a discre- tion somewhere , because it was impossible to enact penalties that should apply to ...
... thing to revise many of our laws , especially those that almost solely affected the lower classes , which had been ... things , to avoid placing a discre- tion somewhere , because it was impossible to enact penalties that should apply to ...
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people would lose any thing . Whilst the present system existed , it was vain to expect what had been pro- claimed by the great Alfred , that justice should be carried to the doors of every man . It was not his wish or intention , in ...
people would lose any thing . Whilst the present system existed , it was vain to expect what had been pro- claimed by the great Alfred , that justice should be carried to the doors of every man . It was not his wish or intention , in ...
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Page 77 - I, to find this subject (surely neither unentertaining nor unuseful) had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice. Few have felt a higher esteem for your talents, your taste, and industry. In truth, the only cause of my delay has been a sort of diffidence, that would not let me send you...
Page 139 - Large rooms, well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young people, of whom some draw from relievo or living models, while others copy drawings of furniture, chandeliers, or other ornaments in bronze. In this assemblage ( and this is very remarkable in the midst of a country where the prejudices of the nobility against the...