Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 60 - O, the blood more stirs to rouse a lion than to start a hare ! North.
Page 42 - Pennsylvania moved as an amendment the proviso "that, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 161 - Federal courts were open and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their judicial functions, had no Jurisdiction to try, convict, or sentence for any criminal offense a citizen who was neither a resident of a rebellious State nor a prisoner of war, nor a person In the military or naval service, and Congress could not Invest them with any such power.
Page 22 - Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve— That column of true majesty in man...
Page 19 - I too am a wave on a stormy sea; I too am a wanderer, driven like thee; I too am seeking a distant land To be lost and gone ere I reach the strand; For the land I seek is a waveless shore, And they who once reach it shall wander no more.
Page 72 - It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty.
Page 18 - I have seen her, in history, struck down on a hundred chosen fields of battle. I have seen her friends fly from her, I have seen her foes gather around her; I have seen them...
Page 238 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 159 - In its enactment, the Legislature has given the sanction of law to a rule of conduct, which the entire civilized world recognizes as essential to the physical and moral well-being of society. Upon no subject is there such a concurrence of opinion, among philosophers, moralists and statesmen of all nations, as on the necessity of periodical cessations from labor.
Page 26 - These sayings are true at all times, and equally true that " a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.