Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials

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J. Murray, 1846 - 368 páginas

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Página 39 - My GOD hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me : forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me ; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Página 39 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Página 66 - Madame; et je sais l'art de lever les scrupules. Le ciel défend, de vrai, certains contentements; Mais on trouve avec lui des accommodements. Selon divers besoins, il est une science D'étendre les liens de notre conscience, Et de rectifier le mal de l'action Avec la pureté de notre intention.
Página 25 - After his discharge he said the same thing to his sister and to Wolflin. Indeed, he combined in his person all the qualities which could enable him to resist truth even when most evident. He was a man whom no question could embarrass and no admonition disconcert. He had considered beforehand the whole array of evidence against him as carefully as the judge himself. Thus nothing took him by surprise ; there was nothing for which he was unprepared. He clung to his fable of the two hop-merchants like...
Página 4 - I then looked out of the window for a while : there was a death-like silence in the street, so much so that I remarked it to my people. At a quarter to ten exactly I closed the shop.
Página 76 - I saw the same person who had been at our house the previous summer, stretched on the floor, in a pool of blood, with her throat cut through, her hair dishevelled, and her clothes torn.
Página 66 - Le scandale du monde est ce qui fait 1'offense, Et ce n'est pas pecher que pecher en silence...
Página 94 - She replied by earnestly entreating him to spare her life ; " then," said he, " I took the razor out of my pocket, embraced her from behind, and with my right hand put the blade to her throat, while with my left I forced it into her windpipe. I instantly perceived by her sobs that I had made a deep incision, and I dropped the razor.

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