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Página 46 - In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Página 262 - Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
Página 5 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Página 207 - Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the ear Of him who thought to die unmourned 'twill fall Like choicest music...
Página 207 - And if I were to be asked what is the great want of English society — to mingle class with class — I would say, in one word, the want is the want of sympathy.
Página 100 - ... enactment of laws by which the education of all the children of the state should be made obligatory. Better to force education upon the people than to force them into prison to suffer for crimes, of which the neglect of education and consequent ignorance have been the occasion, if not the cause. XXXVI. As a principle that crowns all...
Página 222 - Any person who shall have been duly enlisted and mustered into the military or naval service of the United States, as a part of the quota of any city or town in this Commonwealth, under any call of the President of the United States during the late civil war, or duly assigned as a part of the quota thereof, after having been enlisted and mustered into said service...
Página 9 - ... opinion that such persons " are not Able to pay the fine and costs, or that it is otherwise expedient ; " and a similar power is given to the board of directors of public institutions of the city of Boston to discharge from the house of industry. Section 6, chapter 180 of the General Statutes, still unrepealed, relative to the discharge of poor convicts, will apply to cases not included in the other provisions. Chapter 44 of the Acts of 1865, limits the period of confinement for non-payment of...
Página 207 - Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the ear Of him who thought to die...
Página 100 - We ardently hope yet to see all the departments of our preventive, reformatory and penal institutions in each state moulded into one harmonious and effective system; its parts mutually answering to and supporting each other; and the whole animated by the same spirit, aiming at the same objects, and subject to the same control; yet without loss of the advantages of voluntary aid and effort, wherever they are attainable.

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