item: #1 of 15 id: 10392 author: Brampton, Henry Hawkins, Baron title: The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) date: None words: 109179 flesch: 74 summary: Delightful day, Thursday; such a convenient day, too--between the Derby and the Oaks. Said my lord, who was very friendly to the learned counsel, and liked him not only as a member of his old circuit, but as a brother Bencher and a clever advocate,-- Oh, I see; I see where _you_ want to be to-morrow. Said the Judge, My poor woman, now listen to me: Not one hour you shall stray from humanity's heart When thirty swift minutes have sped, you are free keywords: bar; boy; business; case; chapter; character; circuit; circumstances; claimant; counsel; course; court; cross; day; days; deal; death; defence; doubt; duty; evidence; examination; eyes; fact; friend; gentleman; good; guilty; hand; having; hawkins; henry; honour; house; jack; judge; jury; justice; kind; lady; law; left; life; look; lord; lordship; man; manner; men; mind; money; morning; murder; night; occasion; opinion; orkins; people; place; prisoner; public; question; sentence; sir; thing; thought; time; trial; way; witness; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 10392.txt plain text: 10392.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 12930 author: Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord title: Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 date: None words: 145915 flesch: 80 summary: They have the _poir de piss_, the _poir blanchette_ (which comes wery neir our safron peer we have at home), and _trompe valet_, a excelent peir, so called because to look to ye would not think it worth anything, whence the valets or servants, who comes to seik good peirs to their masters, unless they be all the better versed, will not readily buy it, whence it cheats them. I have called my selfe to mind of a most curious portrait that we saw in Richeliew castle, the description wheirof by reason its so marvelously weill done sall not be amiss tho it comes in heir _postliminio_ to insert. keywords: ---of; abbotshall; accompt; account; act; advocat; alexander; amongs; andrew; ane; answer; august; away; beginning; bein; betuixt; body; book; brave; brother; broun; buy; castle; cause; chamber; charles; children; christ; church; clerk; collation; colledge; coming; country; court; croune; daughter; david; day; dayes; death; des; dick; dollars; drink; duke; earle; edinburgh; end; england; english; fand; father; fellow; foot; fountainhall; france; french; gentleman; george; god; gold; good; great; halfe; hamilton; hand; hath; head; henry; himselfe; hir; history; home; house; i.e.; imprimis; interest; item; james; john; july; june; justice; king; kirk; laird; lambes; lands; language; lauder; lauderdale; law; laws; left; letter; library; life; like; litle; livres; london; lord; making; man; march; mark; marriage; matter; men; merks; miles; minister; mks; money; morning; mother; neir; new; night; nixt; notes; november; nurse; occasion; october; order; orleans; oxford; pair; paper; paris; parliament; peices; pence; pension; place; poictiers; power; present; qui; ramsay; reason; receaved; religion; rest; rev; river; robert; sayd; scotland; scots; scottish; sea; sein; september; session; shiling; shillings; shoes; sick; sie; silver; sir; sir john; society; sone; standing; stands; state; sterling; sundry; syde; theirs; themselfes; thesse; thing; thir; tho; thomas; thorow; thought; til; time; togither; toune; tyme; uses; value; vous; ware; water; way; weill; wery; wheir; wheirof; whiles; whilk; whow; wife; william; win; wine; wit; woman; wood; work; world; worth; wt hir; wt mr; wtin; wtout; year; young cache: 12930.txt plain text: 12930.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 15752 author: Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson) title: Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State date: None words: 117177 flesch: 63 summary: To J.H. O'Brien, a well-known citizen, Judge Terry said that after he got out of jail he would horsewhip Judge Field. The letter to me from Justice Field above referred to is the only letter from Justice Field to me in which Judge Terry's name was ever mentioned, and, with the exception of the above-mentioned street conversation, Judge Field was never the subject of conversation between Judge Terry and myself, from the time I left the bench, on the 1st of January, 1857, up to the time of Terry's death. keywords: act; attorney; authority; bench; california; case; character; circuit court; city; conduct; county; county judge; course; court; day; days; decision; district court; district judge; duty; following; francisco; general; good; government; having; house; judge; judge field; judge terry; judge turner; judgment; justice field; land; law; left; letter; life; man; marshal; marysville; matter; neagle; new; office; opinion; order; people; place; present; proceedings; public; purpose; right; room; san; sharon; sheriff; state; state court; supreme court; time; united states; way; wife; years cache: 15752.txt plain text: 15752.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 15894 author: Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman title: The Lifted Bandage date: None words: 5955 flesch: 90 summary: You'll be sorry to hear, Miller, he said--and the dull eyes moved difficultly to the anxious ones, and his voice was uninflected--you'll be sorry to know that the coroner's jury decided that Master Jack was a murderer. It's not any mere lawyers can make me believe that awful thing, sir, of our Master Jack. keywords: ben; dick; eyes; face; jack; judge; man cache: 15894.txt plain text: 15894.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 28980 author: Stephen, Leslie title: The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice date: None words: 168009 flesch: 65 summary: A Digest of the Criminal Law_ (_Crimes and Punishments_), by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, K.C.S.I., Q.C. London, 1877, Macmillan & Co. A Digest of the Law of Criminal Procedure in Indictable Offences_, by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, K.C.S.I., D.C.L., a judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, and Herbert Stephen, Esq., LL.M., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law. keywords: account; argument; articles; bar; bill; book; brother; business; cambridge; case; character; church; code; commission; common; council; country; course; criminal; day; death; early; england; english; evidence; experience; fact; family; father; feeling; fitzjames; fitzjames stephen; footnote; force; friend; general; good; government; henry; history; house; india; interest; james fitzjames; john; judge; justice; kind; know; knowledge; later; law; letters; life; little; lord; maine; man; matters; men; mill; mind; moral; mother; nature; new; opinion; people; place; point; position; power; principles; public; question; reason; review; right; saturday; school; sense; set; sir; society; state; stephen; subject; system; things; thought; time; venn; view; way; william; work; world; years cache: 28980.txt plain text: 28980.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 31037 author: Osbourne, Lloyd title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19 date: None words: 98479 flesch: 85 summary: Get a bead on Attwater, and the others would cut and run and sing out like frightened poultry--and old man Herrick would come round with his hat for a share of the pearls. Here's your health, old man; you're a credit to the South Pacific, said he. keywords: air; archie; attwater; away; black; business; captain; case; clerk; come; course; davis; day; days; dead; dear; death; end; eyes; face; family; farallone; father; figure; frank; god; good; great; guess; half; hand; hay; head; heart; hermiston; herrick; home; house; huish; island; judge; kind; kirstie; lay; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; night; place; point; round; scarce; schooner; sea; sense; set; ship; sir; son; table; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; weir; white; woman; words; world; young cache: 31037.txt plain text: 31037.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 36854 author: Franzos, Karl Emil title: The Chief Justice: A Novel date: None words: 68127 flesch: 82 summary: We beg you to keep this salt-cellar on your table, so that your heart may be always rejoiced by the gift of poor men whose benefactor you have been. Well then; I know your father; he is my best friend, a man so noble and good, so upright and full of heart, as are few men on this poor earth. keywords: berger; case; chief; child; court; day; death; door; duty; eyes; face; father; franz; friend; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; judge; justice; life; look; man; matter; minister; moment; night; people; prison; sendlingen; thing; thought; time; victorine; voice; way; werner cache: 36854.txt plain text: 36854.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 38062 author: Somerville, E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) title: In Mr. Knox's Country date: None words: 69657 flesch: 79 summary: At dinner that night Mrs. Knox was as favourable to me as usual; yet it was pointed out to me by Mrs. Flurry that she was wearing two shawls instead of one, always an indication to be noted as a portent of storm. Had she been there, for example, Mrs. Flurry would scarcely have indicated, with a free gesture, the luxuriance of the asparagus beds in the kitchen garden below, nor promised to have a bundle of it cut for us before we went home; still less would she and Philippa have smoked cigarettes, a practice considered by Mrs. Knox to be, in women, several degrees worse than drinking. keywords: andrew; away; bennett; bill; black; car; chichester; country; course; day; derryclare; dog; door; eyes; face; field; flurry; fox; fraser; grey; half; hall; hand; head; hickey; hill; hounds; hour; house; james; knox; ladies; lady; left; longmuir; look; lyney; m'cabe; m'evoy; man; mare; mcrory; miss; moment; mrs; night; people; philippa; place; pony; road; room; round; table; thing; thought; time; voice; wall; water; wife; wind; yard; young cache: 38062.txt plain text: 38062.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 40076 author: Campbell, John Campbell, Baron title: Atrocious Judges : Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression date: None words: 141530 flesch: 60 summary: We know too much of your religion; no one gives the sacrament in a wafer, except he be a Popish priest: you gave that woman the sacrament in a wafer: _ergo_, you are a Popish priest. In the words of the act of Congress of 2d March, 1831, The power of the several courts of the United States to issue attachments and inflict summary punishments for contempts of court, shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person or persons in the presence of said courts, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, the misbehavior of any of the officers of the said courts in their official transactions, and the disobedience or resistance by any officer of the said courts, party, jurors, witness, or any other person or persons, to any _lawful_ writ, process, order, rule, decree or command of said courts. keywords: act; answer; attorney; authority; bar; bench; case; chancellor; charles; chief justice; city; commons; contempt; corpus; council; counsel; court; crown; day; death; district; england; evidence; favor; following; general; good; government; great; guilty; habeas; having; high; house; james; jeffreys; john; judge; judgment; jurisdiction; jury; justice; keeper; king; law; life; london; lord; lord chief; lord keeper; majesty; man; new; north; office; opinion; parliament; party; people; person; petition; place; pleas; power; practice; present; prisoner; public; question; return; right; seal; sentence; shall; sir; state; thing; thought; time; treason; trial; united; westminster; williamson; writ; years cache: 40076.txt plain text: 40076.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 40388 author: Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) title: The Life of John Marshall, Volume 1: Frontiersman, soldier, lawmaker, 1755-1788 date: None words: 148832 flesch: 70 summary: But young John Marshall did not know that he was missing anything. And indeed at this time, and in the even deadlier days that followed, young John Marshall found strong men by his side willing to die and to go through worse than death to make their great dream come true. keywords: account; ambler; american; anti; army; battle; bill; book; boston; british; chap; college; congress; constitution; constitutionalists; convention; country; course; court; day; days; debate; debts; dec; elliott; fairfax; family; father; fauquier; federal; ford; found; general; george; good; government; half; hamilton; henry; history; house; hunt; iii; infra; james; jay; jefferson; john marshall; journal; june; justice; king; land; law; laws; lee; legislature; letter; liberty; life; madison; man; marshall; marshall family; mary; mason; massachusetts; members; money; national; new; new york; officers; opposition; order; pennsylvania; people; period; philadelphia; plan; point; pounds; power; present; president; public; randolph; ratification; revolution; richmond; said; shillings; society; soldiers; speech; state; thomas marshall; thought; time; united; valley; virginia; virginia state; vols; war; washington; way; wife; william; william marshall; works; writings; years; york; young cache: 40388.txt plain text: 40388.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 40389 author: Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) title: The Life of John Marshall, Volume 2: Politician, diplomatist, statesman, 1789-1801 date: None words: 168023 flesch: 68 summary: Marshall was among the first to arrive; and he announced his choice.[374] Upon his appearance a gentleman demanded that a poll be opened for Mr. Marshall. He tendered the office to five men, all of whom declined.[421] What am I to do for a Secretary of State? he asks Hamilton; and after recounting his fruitless efforts to fill that office the President adds that Mr. Marshall, of Virginia, has declined the office of Attorney General, and I am pretty certain, would accept of no other. keywords: act; adams; administration; american; ames; april; aug; britain; british; burr; business; case; chief; conduct; congress; constitution; country; course; court; day; dec; directory; election; envoys; feb; federalist; ford; france; french; friends; general; general marshall; gerry; good; government; great; hamilton; henry; house; iii; jay; jefferson; john marshall; journal; july; june; justice; king; law; laws; legislature; letter; liberty; life; madison; man; march; marshall; mind; minister; mission; money; monroe; morris; national; new; oct; office; opinion; paris; party; peace; people; philadelphia; pickering; pinckney; power; present; president; public; republican; revolution; richmond; right; secretary; states; subject; talleyrand; term; thought; time; treaty; united; united states; virginia; vols; war; washington; wolcott; works; writings; years; york cache: 40389.txt plain text: 40389.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 40445 author: Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) title: The Life of John Marshall, Volume 3: Conflict and construction, 1800-1815 date: None words: 187253 flesch: 69 summary: Burr_, 309. Burr_, 327 _et seq._ keywords: 1st; aaron burr; act; acts; adams; administration; american; annals; bench; bill; blennerhassett; bollmann; british; burr; burr trials; case; chap; charge; chief; colonel burr; conduct; cong; congress; constitution; counsel; country; course; court; day; district; england; evidence; fact; federalist; ford; general; georgia; good; government; grand; great; hay; history; house; iii; impeachment; indictment; jackson; james; jefferson; john marshall; judges; judiciary; jury; justice; land; law; laws; legislature; letter; lib; life; madison; man; marbury; march; marshall; martin; mss; national; new; office; opinion; order; papers; party; people; place; plumer; political; power; present; president; public; purpose; question; randolph; republican; richmond; right; senate; senator; sess; states; states court; subject; supreme court; swartwout; testimony; time; treason; u.s; united; united states; virginia; vol; vs.; war; washington; wayne; wilkinson; william; work; years; york cache: 40445.txt plain text: 40445.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 40533 author: Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) title: The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835 date: None words: 223197 flesch: 66 summary: Carrington, Edward, supports Jay Treaty, =2=, 121; and M.'s advice on Cabinet positions, 124-26, 132; on Virginia and Jay Treaty, 131, 132, 134, 137, 138 _n._, 142, 143; inaccuracy of reports to Washington, 131 _n._; and Richmond meeting on Jay Treaty, 149, 154; M.'s neighbor, 171; verdict in Burr trial, =3=, 513, 514. GENERAL INDEX GENERAL INDEX Abel, Anne H., monograph on Indian consolidation, =4=, 541 _n._ Adair, John, and Burr Conspiracy, =3=, 291, 292, 314; career, 292 _n._, 336 _n._; Wilkinson's letter to, 314, 336; arrested by Wilkinson, 335, 336, 337 _n._; suit against Wilkinson, 336 _n._; brought to Baltimore, released, 344; statement, 488 _n._; and Green _vs._ Biddle, =4=, 381. Adams, Abijah, trial, =3=, 44-46. keywords: act; acts; adams; american; argument; attack; bank; bill; british; burr; carolina; case; character; chief; college; commerce; congress; constitution; contract; convention; counsel; country; course; court; dartmouth; day; debate; decision; effect; england; fact; fairfax; federal; federalist; foreign; french; general; george; georgia; government; great; henry; history; house; hunter; influence; jackson; james; jefferson; john; john marshall; johnson; judge; judicial; judiciary; jurisdiction; justice; kentucky; lands; law; laws; legislature; letter; life; livingston; m'culloch; madison; man; march; marshall; maryland; monopoly; national; new; niles; office; ogden; ohio; opinion; papers; party; people; philadelphia; pickering; pinkney; power; president; principles; property; public; question; randolph; ratification; report; republican; resolutions; richmond; right; roane; sess; smith; south; state; state court; steamboat; story; subject; supreme court; tariff; thomas; time; trade; treaty; trial; union; united; united states; virginia; vol; vs.; war; washington; webster; wheaton; william; work; yazoo; years; york cache: 40533.txt plain text: 40533.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 42961 author: Child, Frank Samuel title: The House With Sixty Closets: A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children date: None words: 31858 flesch: 92 summary: But it occurred to Mr. Judge at this point that his wife was not prepared for winter. She was simply thoughtless like many other children. keywords: baby; children; closets; dear; family; father; good; house; judge; lady; man; mother; mrs; people; right; room; ruth; samuel; things; think; time; way; wife cache: 42961.txt plain text: 42961.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 59148 author: Riley, Frank title: The Cyber and Justice Holmes date: None words: 5082 flesch: 77 summary: One court reporter confided to Judge Anderson that bookmakers were offering odds of ten to one on Cyber IX. Professor Neustadt turned to Judge Anderson, and his voice dropped almost to a whisper. keywords: anderson; cyber; d.a; judge; neustadt; professor; walhfred cache: 59148.txt plain text: 59148.txt