A Complete History of the Life and Trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, Assassin of President Garfield

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Hubbard Bros., 1882 - Assassins - 512 pages
 

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Page 349 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye. That tears shall drown the wind. — I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself, And falls on the other.
Page 348 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking- off...
Page 413 - ... to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! Yesterday a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev.
Page 352 - Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted of God"; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
Page 128 - Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this...
Page 111 - You shall well and truly try, and true deliverance make, between our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence. So help you God.
Page 109 - Spencer with the aforesaid sword a mortal wound of the depth of six inches and of the breadth of one inch...
Page 127 - ... goes. A human life is of small value. During the war thousands of brave boys went down without a tear. I presume the President was a Christian and that he will be happier in Paradise than here.
Page 109 - Jersey, then and there being, feloniously, wilfully and of his malice aforethought did make an assault...

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