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Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous EssaysThe day dreams on the subject of religious conversions, which they who list may hear on every side, are, like other dreams, the types of substantial realities. Though the workings of the Almighty hand are distinctly visible only to the omniscient eye, yet even our narrow faculties can often trace the movements of that perennial under-current which controls the sequences of human life, and imparts t...

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Excerpt from A Digest of the Law of EvidenceIn the autumn of 1872 Lord Coleridge (then attorney-gen eral) employed me to draw a similar code for England. I did so in the course of the winter, and we settled it in frequent consultations. It was ready to be introduced early in the Ses sion of 1873. Lord Coleridge made various attempts to bring it forward, but he could not succeed till the very last day of the Session. He said a few words on the ...

Excerpt from Horae Sabbaticae: Reprint of Articles Contributed to the Saturday Review Now' dominion and liberty are mutually exclusive, and, as rights are no more than ascertained and definite branches of liberty, it follows that they are constituted by law, which is the will of the ruler 3 that as against the ruler no one can have any rights, inasmuch as the existence of rights is dependent on the ruler's will 3 and that the ruler lies under...

Excerpt from The History of Toussaint Louverture: A New Edition, With a Dedication to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias How would it have cheered the gloom bf that solitary dungeon in which this great man' re signed his gallant spirit, had he been assured that an arm more powerful than his own would shortly vindicate on his oppressor, the rights of suffer ing humanity! But could he also i have foreseen that with that arm Wou...

Excerpt from The Opportunity, or Reasons for an Immediate Alliance With St. DomingoAllow me, therefore, Sir, to transfer to you, in its original shape, as an official heir-loom, the advice which was meant for your predecessor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-t...

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Excerpt from Lapsus Calami and Other VersesThere were two good fellows I used to know, - How distant it all appears! We played together in football weather.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the or...

Excerpt from England Enslaved by Her Own Slave Colonies: An Address to the Electors and People of the United Kingdom Still, the well-informed advocates of reformation were reasonably alarmed. They did not doubt Mr. Canning's sincerity. The'ge neral liberality of his principles is not less unquestionable than hls transcendent eloquence, and he had been' an early friend to~the Abolition. But they saw from this hopeless project that he laboured ...

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Excerpt from The Dangers of the Country To remark, for instance, upon the late measures of national defence, or the conduct of the war, was to advance in a country occupied in every dirce tion, by the enmities, and the jealous1es of party: and to alter what he had formerly said on these (31* other subjects, connected as some of them are with points supposed to be in difference between thelate and the present Administration, was a work of stil...

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