 | Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 652 pages
...subject of 444 calumny. No man, might he let the bitter cup pass from him without self reproach, wou>d drain it to the bottom. But if he have no choice in the case, if there be no aliernative presented to him but a dereliction of duty or the opprobrium of those who are denominated... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 516 pages
...power is most true. That this court dares not shrink from its duty is not less true. the opprobium of those who are denominated the world, he merits the contempt as well as the indignatiun of his country, who can hesitate which to embrace. That gentlemen, in a case the most interesting,... | |
 | William Sullivan - Federal party - 1834 - 490 pages
...becoming the peculiar subject of calumny. " No man, might he let the bitter cup pass from him, with" out self-reproach, would drain it to the bottom. But if...no choice in the case; if there be no alternative pre" scribed to him, but a dereliction of duty, or the opprobrium "of those denominated the world,... | |
 | William Sullivan - United States - 1834 - 398 pages
...it to the bottom. But if he " have n6 choice in the case ; if there be no alternative pre" scribed to him, but a dereliction of duty, or the opprobrium "of those denominated the world, he merits the contempt, " as well as the indignation of his country, who can... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1835 - 302 pages
...desirous of becoming the peculiar subject of calumny. No man, might he let the bitter cup pass from him without self-reproach, would drain it to the bottom....no choice in the case ; if there be no alternative prescribed to him, but a dereliction of duty, or the opprobrium of those denominated the world, he... | |
 | William Sullivan - Federal party - 1847 - 478 pages
...desirous of becoming the peculiar subject of calumny. No man, might he let the bitter cup pass from him without self-reproach, would drain it to the bottom....no choice in the case ; if there be no alternative prescribed to him, but a dereliction of duty, or the opprobrium of those denominated the world, he... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1848 - 712 pages
...language of the greatest jurist that over presided in the courts of this or any other country, " If we have no choice in the case, if there be no alternative presented, but a Action of duty, or the opprobrinm of those who are denomi• Reynolds rs. The State. nated the... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 774 pages
...without self-reproach, would drain it to the bottom. But if he has no choice in the case, if there is no alternative presented to him but a dereliction of duty, or the opprobium of those who are denominated the world, he merits the contempt, as well as the indignation.... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1852 - 772 pages
...without self-reproach, would drain it to the bottom. But if he has no choice in the case, if there is no alternative presented to him but a dereliction of duty. or the opprobium of those who are denominated the world, he merits the contempt, as well as the Indignation.... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...But if he has no choice in the case; if there is no alternative presented to him but a derilection of duty, or the opprobrium of those who are denominated...of his country, who can hesitate which to embrace/ As the prosecution relied on the opinion in ex parte Bollman and Swartwout, to sustain the positions... | |
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But if he have no choice in the case, if there be no alternative presented to him but a dereliction of duty, or the opprobrium of those who are denominated the world, he merits the contempt as well as the indignation of his country who can hesitate which... 
