Suppressed Defence: The Defence of Mary-Anne Carlile, to the Vice Society's Indictment, Against the Appendix to the Theological Works of Thomas Paine; which Defence was Suppressed by Mr. Justice Best, Almost at Its Commencement; And, on the Propriety of which Suppression, the Public, as the Highest Tribunal, is Now Appealed to and Called Upon to Judge Between the Defendant, Her Prosecutors, and Her Judge: with a Report of the Proceedings Before the Defence was Suppressed |
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... truth of their pretensions , they call upon you , Gentle- men of the Jury , to give me two or three years imprison- ment . But I trust , Gentlemen , that you will be more ho- nest that you will not consent to throw me into a dungeon ...
... truth of their pretensions , they call upon you , Gentle- men of the Jury , to give me two or three years imprison- ment . But I trust , Gentlemen , that you will be more ho- nest that you will not consent to throw me into a dungeon ...
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... truth or falsehood ,. and the utmost latitude of discussion can never become in- jurious to truth or honesty , nor merit the epithet of licen- tiousness . I am bold to affirm , that there is no other licen- tiousness in the Printing ...
... truth or falsehood ,. and the utmost latitude of discussion can never become in- jurious to truth or honesty , nor merit the epithet of licen- tiousness . I am bold to affirm , that there is no other licen- tiousness in the Printing ...
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... truth , to right , and to common sense . Tresilian , and Empson , and Dudley , and Jefferies , who were justly put to death for their iniquities and crimes , all acted upon their common law , and whilst they were in power , their dicta ...
... truth , to right , and to common sense . Tresilian , and Empson , and Dudley , and Jefferies , who were justly put to death for their iniquities and crimes , all acted upon their common law , and whilst they were in power , their dicta ...
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... truth , than my prosecutors , perhaps the Chris- tian religion had not been the religion of the country to this day . I quote the answer of Ethelbert to Austin , from Hume's History of England : " Your words and promises , said ...
... truth , than my prosecutors , perhaps the Chris- tian religion had not been the religion of the country to this day . I quote the answer of Ethelbert to Austin , from Hume's History of England : " Your words and promises , said ...
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... truth cannot be elicited but by the freest and fullest enquiry ; and knowing this , they fear not to read any thing themselves , and wish the same disposi- tion to be followed by those who ignorantly , brutally , and maliciously ...
... truth cannot be elicited but by the freest and fullest enquiry ; and knowing this , they fear not to read any thing themselves , and wish the same disposi- tion to be followed by those who ignorantly , brutally , and maliciously ...
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Page 45 - Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year : ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats : and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month ; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Page 26 - Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Page 37 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
Page 37 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 28 - And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Page 45 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 36 - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and -the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 25 - But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Page 31 - But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel : for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
Page 28 - And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where CHRIST should be born.