The True Grandeur of Nations: An Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845Smith, 1846 - 104 páginas |
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... war and all preparation for war are irrational , unnecessary , and inconsistent with that true greatness at which our ... Trial by Battle , to determine justice between nations . I am , sir , your obedient servant , THOMAS A. DAvis , Esq ...
... war and all preparation for war are irrational , unnecessary , and inconsistent with that true greatness at which our ... Trial by Battle , to determine justice between nations . I am , sir , your obedient servant , THOMAS A. DAvis , Esq ...
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... trial by battle , in the dark ages . The object proposed in these cases was precisely the professed object of modern war , * Alison , viii . 346. † Ib . ix . 239. Napier , vi . 687. § Ib . iv . 477 . * the determination of justice . Did ...
... trial by battle , in the dark ages . The object proposed in these cases was precisely the professed object of modern war , * Alison , viii . 346. † Ib . ix . 239. Napier , vi . 687. § Ib . iv . 477 . * the determination of justice . Did ...
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... battle , child of superstition and brute force , and the great ordeal of war . Like the other ordeals , by burning ... trial by battle prevailed in the early modern centuries throughout Europe ; it was a part of the common law of England ...
... battle , child of superstition and brute force , and the great ordeal of war . Like the other ordeals , by burning ... trial by battle prevailed in the early modern centuries throughout Europe ; it was a part of the common law of England ...
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... trial by battle ; and , instead of battles , we establish proofs by witnesses ; and we do not take away the other good and loyal proofs which have been used in lay courts to this day . * * AND THESE BATTLES WE ABOLISH IN OUR DOMINIONS ...
... trial by battle ; and , instead of battles , we establish proofs by witnesses ; and we do not take away the other good and loyal proofs which have been used in lay courts to this day . * * AND THESE BATTLES WE ABOLISH IN OUR DOMINIONS ...
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... trial by battle will illustrate and bring home to your minds the chances of war , and the consequent folly and wickedness of submitting any question to its arbitrament . As we revert to those early periods in which it prevailed , our ...
... trial by battle will illustrate and bring home to your minds the chances of war , and the consequent folly and wickedness of submitting any question to its arbitrament . As we revert to those early periods in which it prevailed , our ...
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Página 50 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 95 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Página 70 - MY FRIENDS — There is one great God and power that hath made the world and all things therein, to whom you and I, and all people owe their being and well-being, and to whom you and I must one day give an account for all that we do in the world. This great God hath written his law in...
Página 23 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 100 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel: They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Página 32 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Página 24 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Página 70 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Página 11 - Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos...
Página 75 - Peace, receive unwonted admiration when we discern them in war, — like violets shedding their perfume on the perilous edge of the precipice, beyond the smiling borders of civilization. God be praised for all the examples of magnanimous virtue which he has vouchsafed to mankind ! God be praised that the Roman Emperor, about to start on a distant expedition of war, encompassed by squadrons of cavalry and by golden eagles...