Classics of the Bar: Stories of the World's Great Legal Trials and a Compilation of Forensic Masterpieces, Volume 6Classic Publishing Company, 1920 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
antimony arsenic authority believe Bolsheviks Borst called Carawan cause character charge Christison circumstances coffee color Colton committed conduct conviction Coroner Croker counsel Court crime death deceased defendants delirium tremens District Attorney doubt dramshop Dream duty fact fatal fired friends Frohwerk gentlemen give guilty hand heard heart human husband innocent intemperance Jacob Rehm jail James O'Brien John McKenna jury justice kind knew Lassiter libel liquid tests Mallett McKenna ment mind Miss Arey Miss Register Mollie Steimer motive Munn murder never occasion opinion Orphan-Maker perjury phosphoric acid physicians pistol plaintiff precipitate present prisoner prisoner's produced proof prosecution prove republic of Russia Richard Croker Russia says shot sick Simpson Smith stand stomach swear syllabub symptoms Tammany Hall tartar emetic tell testified testimony thing tion told trial true truth United verdict wife Wilbar witness
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Página 41 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 318 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Página 37 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
Página 368 - ... free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system I think that we should...
Página 367 - But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market ; and the truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Página 366 - In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment have been imposed for the publishing of two leaflets that I believe the defendants had as much right to publish as the Government has to publish the Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked by them...
Página 346 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man, whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a...
Página 368 - ... of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, "Congress shall make no law .. .abridging the freedom of speech.
Página 363 - ... individually could foresee them or not. But, when words are used exactly, a deed is not done with intent to produce a consequence unless that consequence is the aim of the deed. It may be obvious, and obvious to the actor, that the consequence will follow, and he may be liable for it even if he regrets it, but he does not do the act with intent to produce it unless the aim to produce it is the proximate motive of the specific act, although there may be some deeper motive behind. It seems to me...
Página 338 - We stand in the presence of a revolution — not a bloody revolution; America is not given to the spilling of blood — but a silent revolution, whereby America will insist upon recovering in practice those ideals which she has always professed, upon securing a government devoted to the general interest and not to special interests.