Richard Carlile, Agitator: His Life and Times |
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Page 79 - Christianity is Parcel of the Laws of England; and therefore to reproach the Christian Religion is to speak in Subversion of the Law.
Page 171 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 47 - And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth...
Page 189 - Patterson, that the Christian religion is part of the law of the land. The argument is reduced to this, that an indictment for libel is to be confined to blasphemy against the New Testament. But such an argument is scarcely worth anything, because it is impossible to say that the Old and the New Testaments are not so intimately connected that if the one is true the other is true also ; and the evidence of Christianity partly consists of the prophecies in the Old Testament.
Page 79 - Hale said that such kind of wicked, blasphemous words were not only an offence to God and religion, but a crime against the laws, state, and government, and therefore punishable in this Court...
Page 189 - As to the argument, that the relaxation of oaths is a reason for departing from the law laid down in the old cases, we could not accede to it without saying that there is no mode by which religion holds society together, but the administration of oaths; but that is not so, for religion . . . contains the most powerful sanction for good conduct.
Page 20 - the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded. In a kindred spirit, during the trials of Muir and Palmer, for " leasing-making," or sedition, in Scotland, one of the Lords of Justiciary declared that "no " man had a right to speak of the Constitution unless he "possessed landed property;" and another affirmed that " since the abolition of TORTURE, there was no adequate "punishment for sedition.
Page 99 - I should be extremely sorry to use the power with which this seat invests me. If you think that my power extends only to removing you from the Court, you are mistaken ; I have the power of fining you whenever you transgress the bounds of decency, and I will do so if you presume again to offer any insult to me or to the profession. The defendant. — If your dungeon is ready, my lord, suffer me to give you the key. Mr Justice BEST. — I fine you 201.
Page 187 - I would have it taken notice of, that we do not meddle with any differences of opinion, and that we interpose only where the very root of Christianity itself is struck at...
Page 30 - Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilization.