The Chronicles of Crime, Or, The New Newgate Calendar: Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... Including a Number of Curious Cases Never Before Published

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T. Tegg, 1841
 

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Página 611 - Person so offending shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of his or her natural Life, or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without hard Labour, as the Court shall direct.
Página 610 - ... at any person ; or shall, by drawing a trigger, or in any other manner, attempt to discharge any kind of loaded arms at any person...
Página 582 - Central Criminal Court, to wit. — The jurors for our lady the Queen, upon their oath present, that...
Página 274 - The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer.
Página 553 - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken : and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Página 330 - That you, and every of you, be taken hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to a place of execution, where you be severally hanged by the neck until you are dead : and may the Lord, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your guilty souls.
Página 498 - We perform the duties of freemen ; we must have the privileges of freemen. Therefore we demand universal suffrage. The suffrage, to be exempt from the corruption of the wealthy and the violence of the powerful, must be secret. The assertion of our right necessarily involves the power of its uncontrolled exercise.
Página 498 - God's help, and all lawful and constitutional appliances, an end can be put to it, we are fully resolved that it shall speedily come to an end. We tell your Honourable House, that the capital of the master must no longer be deprived of its due profit; that the labour of the workman must no longer be deprived of its due reward.
Página 541 - And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the Lord ; Such as are for death, to death ; and such as are for the sword, to the sword ; and such as are for the famine, to the famine ; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
Página 96 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.

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