The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Volume 8T. Boys, 1826 - Anecdotes |
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... death ; and was hence said by Demades , " to have written his laws , not with ink but with blood . " To steal an apple was with him a crime of as deep a dye as to commit sacrilege ; even " confirmed idleness " was punished with death ...
... death ; and was hence said by Demades , " to have written his laws , not with ink but with blood . " To steal an apple was with him a crime of as deep a dye as to commit sacrilege ; even " confirmed idleness " was punished with death ...
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... death . " One day an alarm was given of an enemy approaching , and Diocles hastened out to meet them with his sword by his side . On the way he was in- formed that the people , indifferent to their common danger , had assembled to talk ...
... death . " One day an alarm was given of an enemy approaching , and Diocles hastened out to meet them with his sword by his side . On the way he was in- formed that the people , indifferent to their common danger , had assembled to talk ...
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... death . Before the end of the year , a conspiracy was form- ed , in which many of the young nobility were con- cerned , and among the rest the two sons of Brutus the consul . Their object was to restore the Tarquins ; and they were so ...
... death . Before the end of the year , a conspiracy was form- ed , in which many of the young nobility were con- cerned , and among the rest the two sons of Brutus the consul . Their object was to restore the Tarquins ; and they were so ...
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... death . Never was an event more capable of creating at the same time feelings of grief and horror . Brutus , father and judge of the two offenders , was obliged by his office to see his sons executed . A great num- ber of the most noble ...
... death . Never was an event more capable of creating at the same time feelings of grief and horror . Brutus , father and judge of the two offenders , was obliged by his office to see his sons executed . A great num- ber of the most noble ...
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... death , sent for the father , and communicated a full account of the horrid deed his son had committed . The father , though struck speechless with astonishment and horror , at length shook off the feelings of the parent , and exclaimed ...
... death , sent for the father , and communicated a full account of the horrid deed his son had committed . The father , though struck speechless with astonishment and horror , at length shook off the feelings of the parent , and exclaimed ...
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Page 78 - You must not think that I am able to run up so many years, and over so many adjudged cases, which we call Common Law, to answer your curiosity. Penn: This answer, I am sure, is very short of my question; for, if it be common, it should not be so hard to produce.
Page 78 - Certainly, if the common law be so hard to be understood, it is far from being very common ; but if the Lord Coke in his Institutes...
Page 116 - To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. The humble Petition of Ralph Griffith, Esq.
Page 11 - Roman law, parricide, or the murder of one's parents or children, was punished in a much severer manner than any other kind of homicide. After being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so cast into the sea...
Page 78 - I have broken, you do at once deny me an acknowledged right, and evidence to the whole world your resolution to sacrifice the privileges of Englishmen to your sinister and arbitrary designs.
Page 3 - Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs.
Page 58 - Barbarous father, your cruelty in having put it out of my power ever to join my fate to that of the only man I could love, and tyrannically insisting upon my marrying one whom I always hated, has made me form a resolution to put an end to an existence which is become a burden to me.
Page 83 - Shaftesbury had more law than all his judges and more divinity than all his bishops.
Page 55 - A MAN was tried for and convicted of the murder of his own father. The evidence against him was merely circumstantial, and the principal witness was his sister. She proved that her father possessed a small income, which, with his industry, enabled him to live with comfort; that her brother...
Page 114 - The knout whip is fixed to a wooden handle a foot long, and consists of several thongs, about two feet in length, twisted together, to the end of which is fastened a single tough thong of a foot > 3 and a half in length, tapering towards a point, and capable of being changed by the executioner when too much softened by the blood of the criminal.