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Page 29 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 28 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 96 - Blackstone maintains it in the first chapter of the second book of his Commentaries, wherein he says: "There is no foundation in Nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land ; why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him; or why the occupier of a particular field, or of a jewel, when lying on his deathbed and no...
Page 30 - ... are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: — That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 243 - Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment for not more than 1 year.
Page 109 - Hall was in Tennessee when the killing was done. He was then arrested and held as a fugitive from justice. The Governor of Tennessee sent for Hall on requisition. Hall applied for discharge, but the judge to whom the application was made refused to discharge him.
Page 109 - Court, joined in the dissent on the ground that if, in contemplation of law, Hall was in Tennessee at the time of the killing so that he cannot be tried in North Carolina, in the same contemplation of law he must be a fugitive from justice, for he cannot now be found in Tennessee...
Page 245 - ... marble dust, until the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals interfered and finally succeeded in putting a stop to the practice. The Americans, as a people, are notorious for the recklessness with which they squander the products of Nature, of which their country is so exceedingly prolific. This extravagance extends to all departments of public, social, and domestic life. No land less rich in material resources could have borne for any length of time the wretched mismanagement of its...
Page 36 - All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State where they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law, which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
Page 84 - I look forward to a time when every man " shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, with none to molest or make afraid...