Speeches of Lord Campbell: At the Bar, and in the House of Commons, with an Address to the Irish Bar as Lord Chancellor of IrelandA. and C. Black, 1842 - 520 Seiten |
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Seite 76 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 230 - All which they most humbly pray of your most excellent majesty as their rights and liberties, according to the laws and statutes of this realm ; and that your majesty would also vouchsafe to declare, that the awards, doings, and proceedings, to the prejudice of your people in any of the...
Seite 324 - Henry VIII. and his three children. It can change and create afresh even the Constitution of the kingdom and of Parliaments themselves, as was done by the Act of Union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It can, in short, do everything that is not naturally impossible ; and therefore some have not scrupled to call its power, by a figure rather too bold, the omnipotence of Parliament.
Seite 267 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Seite 169 - But the matters which are to be established for the Estate of our Lord the King and of his Heirs, and for the estate of the Realm and of the People, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliament by our Lord the King and by the Assent of the Prelates, Earls, and Barons and the commonalty of the Realm, according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Seite 222 - And further, we be informed by our judges, that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal, as in the time of Parliament; wherein we as head, and you as members, are conjoined and knit together into one body...
Seite 358 - though the publication of such proceedings may be to the disadvantage of the particular individual concerned, yet it is of vast importance to the public that the proceedings of courts of justice should be universally known. The general advantage to the country in having these proceedings made public, more than counterbalances the inconvenience to the private persons whose conduct may be the subject of such proceedings.
Seite 460 - ... if a man do levy war against our lord the king, in his realm, or be adhetent to the king's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort, in the realm, or elsewhere...
Seite 464 - ... within the Realm or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment or restraint, of the person of the same our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs or successors...
Seite 444 - ... stab, cut or wound any person, with intent in any of the cases aforesaid, to maim, disfigure, or disable such person, or to do some other grievous, bodily harm to such person...