The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 14G. Berger, 1868 - Anecdotes |
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... known to be honest and substantial citizens , were then challenged without assigning any reason , and two others with as little reason substituted in their stead . The prisoner , observing this hitherto unexampled perversion of justice ...
... known to be honest and substantial citizens , were then challenged without assigning any reason , and two others with as little reason substituted in their stead . The prisoner , observing this hitherto unexampled perversion of justice ...
Page 61
... known enemy of the country . Without the walls of the court of justice , my character was pursued with the most persevering slander ; and within those walls , though I was too strong to be beaten down by any judicial malignity , it was ...
... known enemy of the country . Without the walls of the court of justice , my character was pursued with the most persevering slander ; and within those walls , though I was too strong to be beaten down by any judicial malignity , it was ...
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... known epithets of Whig and Tory , by which , and sometimes without any material differ- ence , this island has been so long divided . The court party reproached their antagonists with their affinity to the fanatical conventiclers in ...
... known epithets of Whig and Tory , by which , and sometimes without any material differ- ence , this island has been so long divided . The court party reproached their antagonists with their affinity to the fanatical conventiclers in ...
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