Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete SpeechesJames Milton O'Neill |
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... duty incumbent on me , as on every other citizen , to do my best and my utmost to bring to light the perpetrators of this crime . Against the prisoner at the bar , as an individual , I cannot have the slightest prejudice . I would not ...
... duty incumbent on me , as on every other citizen , to do my best and my utmost to bring to light the perpetrators of this crime . Against the prisoner at the bar , as an individual , I cannot have the slightest prejudice . I would not ...
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... duty to judge the prisoner ; that it is your individual duty to determine his guilt or innocence ; and that you are to weigh the testi- mony with candor and fairness . But much , at the same time , has been said , which , although it ...
... duty to judge the prisoner ; that it is your individual duty to determine his guilt or innocence ; and that you are to weigh the testi- mony with candor and fairness . But much , at the same time , has been said , which , although it ...
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... duty you have to perform , and serves to remind you of the care and wisdom necessary to be exercised in its performance . But certainly these considerations do not render the prisoner's guilt any clearer , nor enhance the weight of the ...
... duty you have to perform , and serves to remind you of the care and wisdom necessary to be exercised in its performance . But certainly these considerations do not render the prisoner's guilt any clearer , nor enhance the weight of the ...
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... duty when they have answered the questions put to them . But suppose that we admit that he did not then tell all he knew , this does not affect the fact at all , because he did tell , at the time , in the hearing of others , that the ...
... duty when they have answered the questions put to them . But suppose that we admit that he did not then tell all he knew , this does not affect the fact at all , because he did tell , at the time , in the hearing of others , that the ...
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... duty to the public , as well as to the prisoner at the bar . You cannot presume to be wiser than the law . Your duty is a plain , straightforward one . Doubtless we would all judge him in mercy . Towards him , as an individual , the law ...
... duty to the public , as well as to the prisoner at the bar . You cannot presume to be wiser than the law . Your duty is a plain , straightforward one . Doubtless we would all judge him in mercy . Towards him , as an individual , the law ...
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American assembly authority believe Brown street called cause Church of England civil colonies common Congress Constitution convention court crime crown declared defendant doctrine Duluth duty England evidence fact favor Federal Federal Territories feel force give guilty hand Hartford Convention heart honorable gentleman honorable Member House of Commons Ireland Irish judge jury justice Knapp land League of Nations learned friend legislature liberty live Lord George Lord George Gordon means measure ment mind murder nation nature never noble O'Connell object opinion Parliament party peace persons political present President principle prisoner protection prove punishment purpose question reason rebellion repeal Republican Republican party resolution Senate slavery slaves South Carolina speech spirit statute tariff tariff of 1816 things thought tion toleration act trade trial true truth Union votes whole words
Popular passages
Page 400 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political Independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Page 636 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 485 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those Divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 481 - Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
Page 483 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will...
Page 485 - The Almighty has his own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Page 481 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 154 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 197 - I call upon the honor of your Lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Page 153 - But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations.