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Excerpt from War in Disguise: Or, the Frauds of the Neutral Flags Though the following sheets have been written arid sent to press in considerable haste, on account of some temporary considerations which add to the immediate importance of their subject, the author has spared no pains that could, tend to guard his statements from mistake. His facts are for the most part, derived, as the reader will perceive, from those authentic and original s...

Excerpt from A Digest Law of Evidence: From the Fifth Edition (1899) Of Sir Herbert Stephen, Bart, , Of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Clerk of Assize for the Northern Circuit, and Harry Lushington Stephen, of the Inner Temple, Esquire, Barrister-at-Law, With Both General American Notes An Two objects have been in mind in the preparation of this work, first to furnish to the profession of all the States and to students an American editio...

Excerpt from Lectures on the History of France, Vol. 2 of 2 When, in June, 1787, Louis XVI. required the Parliament of Paris to register his edict for raising a revenue by stamps, that body, assisted by the Dukes and Peers of France, resolved, that the right of imposing taxes on the people belonged to the States General, and to them alone, and that the parliaments were not competent to sanction any fiscal ordinances. How then did it happen th...

Excerpt from Essays Ecclesiastical Biography, Vol. 1 of 2 I destined my contributions to the Edinburgh Review to that early forgetfulness which, with a very few remarkable exceptions, attends and befits the whole mass of the periodical literature of our age. But it has seemed good to certain American book sellers to publish, with my name, repeated editions of a series of those contributions. I am thus an author in my own despite. About the P...

Excerpt from Buonaparte in the West Indies, or the History of Toussaint Louverture, the African Hero Every body has beard of Toussaint, the famous Negro General. Who does not know that it was he who fought so bravely for the freedom of the poor blacks of St. Domingo, and who also defended the island for France during the whole of the last war. In this, by the by, he did no more than his duty as a Frenchman, and every loyal Englishman will lik...

Excerpt from The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey, Vol. 1 of 2Seventh volume of the Parliamentary History. The first part was, it is stated, corrected by Sir Gilbert Eliot himself, but the second and more important part was not corrected by him, and is far less complete.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reprodu...

Excerpt from Lectures, Vol. 1 of 2: On the History of France My dear Sir, I should be sorely embarrassed if it were necessary for me, in dedicating this book to you, to attempt an imitation of that lapidary style in which Dryden and his contemporaries were accustomed to lay their works at the feet of their patrons. I could with almost equal ease present myself at your hospitable lodge at Trinity, in a coat embroidered like that in which Dry...

Excerpt from The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey, Vol. 2 of 2 In the preceding chapters I have related in the fullest detail every incident which I have been able to discover connected with Nunc Omar's charges against Hastings, the charge of forgery made against Nunkumar, his trial and execution, and the view taken of those transactions at the time when they happened. I now come to consider the charges made against I...

Excerpt from The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated, Vol. 1: As It Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared With the Slavery of Other Countries, Ancient and Modern The delay will be thought to demand an apology only by the friends of the great public cause which I wish to serve, and from them I may reasonably hope not only candour, but indulgence. I will therefore content myself with assuring them that I have not been ...

Excerpt from International Law and International Relations, an Attempt to Ascertain the Best Method of Discussing the Topics of International Law Denoted by the name International Law. Can we not adopt a similar course with regard to those topics of International Law which are not matters for municipal legislation, and which there fore do not come within the scope of a work on any branch of positive law? Can we not, that is, see what is the t...

Excerpt from A General View of the Criminal Law of England The History is, however, too long and elaborate for general purposes, and in particular for the purpose of an introduction to the two Digests, and I have been informed that my first work, the General View of the Law of England, is still in request, as a first book on Criminal Law, amongst students at the Universities and elsewhere, although it has become so rare as to be in practice u...

Excerpt from Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Such, stated of course in the most general terms, is the religion of which I take Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity' to be the creed. I do not believe it for the following, amongst other reasons. I am not the advocate of Slavery, Caste, and Hatred, nor do I deny that a sense may be given to the words, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in which they may be regarded as good. I wish to assert with res...

Excerpt from The Indian Evidence Act (I. Of 1872): With an Introduction, Principles of Judicial Evidence Of these errata three, viz., Nos. 8, 10, and 11, make substantial alterations in the Act on points on which it was drawn advisedly in the words in which it now stands, for various reasons which were carefully con sidered and regarded as satisfactory. Upon these points there is of course room for difference of opinion, but there was no inad...

Excerpt from A Defence of the Bill for the Registration of Slaves My dear Wilberforce, The second of the four objections to your bill, under which the various arguments and clamours of our opponents were arranged, next demands our notice. They maintain, "That the measure is unnecessary." Here they had much to answer, before they could have any right to rail. The report which they undertook to refute, your speech introductory of the bill,...

Excerpt from Horae Sabbaticae: Reprint of Articles Contributed to the Saturday Review His inquiry into the nature Of human know ledge, his dialogues ou the same subject, and Siris, are undoubtedly three Of the most subtle specula tions of the eighteenth century, yet each is mainly directed towards a rigidly practical Object. To confound scepticism, atheism, and irreligion is the Object of his inquiry into the reality of matter. To preach the ...

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