Orations & Essays of Edward John Phelps: Diplomat and StatesmanHarper & Brothers, 1901 - 475 strani |
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... rules and experience of war- fare , the successful storming , by a hastily organ- ized militia , of an intrenched position at the top of a hill , held by an adequate regular force , would have been declared impossible . But it was the ...
... rules and experience of war- fare , the successful storming , by a hastily organ- ized militia , of an intrenched position at the top of a hill , held by an adequate regular force , would have been declared impossible . But it was the ...
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... rules that are applied to the humblest contract , between the obscurest individuals , were found sufficient for the emergency , when a court of justice was called upon for the first time in the history of the world , not merely to ...
... rules that are applied to the humblest contract , between the obscurest individuals , were found sufficient for the emergency , when a court of justice was called upon for the first time in the history of the world , not merely to ...
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... rules strongly and clearly established . Future labor in that direc- tion , though constant , will be easier and plainer than in the century that has passed away . But new attacks upon individual rights , in many forms and under many ...
... rules strongly and clearly established . Future labor in that direc- tion , though constant , will be easier and plainer than in the century that has passed away . But new attacks upon individual rights , in many forms and under many ...
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... or to deal with every successive case upon a special rule of its own , would be equally impossible ; and the attempt must result in intolerable • confusion . Only the Almighty could administer such justice 95 THE RELATION OF LAW TO JUSTICE.
... or to deal with every successive case upon a special rule of its own , would be equally impossible ; and the attempt must result in intolerable • confusion . Only the Almighty could administer such justice 95 THE RELATION OF LAW TO JUSTICE.
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... rule , which usually , but not always , coincides with the justice of the particular case . It is the framing of these general rules in such manner as to bring about practical justice in the greatest number of cases , and with the ...
... rule , which usually , but not always , coincides with the justice of the particular case . It is the framing of these general rules in such manner as to bring about practical justice in the greatest number of cases , and with the ...
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Stran 472 - Rest unto our souls." —Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want, — the end of all our wishes and pursuits : give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth...
Stran 241 - States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Stran 17 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights; amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety...
Stran 18 - As every freeman, to preserve his independence, (if he has not a sufficient estate,) ought to have some profession, calling, trade, or farm, whereby he may honestly subsist, there can be no necessity for, nor use in establishing offices of profit ; the usual effects of which are dependence and servility, unbecoming freemen, in the possessors and expectants ; faction, contention, corruption, and disorder among the people. Wherefore, whenever an office, through increase of fees or otherwise, becomes...
Stran 65 - No man shall be deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers and the law of the land.
Stran 232 - if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature...
Stran 303 - ... for crime; that no bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed; that no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or...
Stran 308 - The judicial power is vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time establish.
Stran 86 - We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us. Come, away; This case of that huge spirit now is cold. Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend But resolution, and the briefest end.
Stran 310 - ... admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens or subjects.