It would, however, be a million times worse if juries cannot be found here cool and dispassionate enough to render impartial verdicts.

Novelties are for those who seek to upturn the verdicts of past ages by offering something new, rather than what is true.

I declare, I believe she is beautiful," were Stephen's successive verdicts, as he drew nearer and nearer to Mercy.

Gregory Nazianzen, whether preaching in his paternal village or in the cathedral of Constantinople, was equally the creator of those opinion-makers who settle the verdicts of men.

And I confess that his closing days strongly touch my sympathies, and make me feel that historians have been too harsh in their verdicts.

He was, on the contrary, one of the ablest and strongest lawyers who sat on the federal bench during the last half of the nineteenth century; and Bradley, like Story before him, remonstrated against turning the bench of magistrates, to which he belonged, from a tribunal which should propound general rules applicable to all material facts, into a jury to find verdicts on the reasonableness of the votes of representative assemblies.

The old eorls and ealdormen were warriors; and yet to them had been committed the administration of justice, which they often abused,frequently deciding cases against the verdicts of jurors, and sometimes unjustly dooming innocent men to capital punishment.

Even bad menlike Caesar, Richelieu, and Napoleonhave obtained favorable verdicts in view of their services.

But the verdicts of the last and present generation of historians, educated with hatred of irresponsible power, may be again reversed, and Louis XIV.

In another hundred years, the verdicts of critics as to the greater part of the poems of Tennyson, Wordsworth, Browning, and Longfellow, may be very different from what they now are, while some of their lyrics may be, as they are now, pronounced immortal.

Nay, it is often only after the lapse of time that the persons really competent to judge them appearexceptional critics sitting in judgment on exceptional works, and giving their weighty verdicts in succession.

It may be well to say that, with the exception of the occasional necessity or seeming-necessity for taking one side or the other in a matter of dispute, I have avoided the facility of bandying highly moral verdicts and labelling these victors or victims of life with tags marking their destinations in the next world.

He knew that world well, knew its tyrannical code, its puzzling verdicts, its unaccountable clemency to the wolf, its inflexible severity for the lamb, above all, its holy horror of a blot that has been scored, of a sin, then only unpardonable, that has been "found out.

Eleven inquisitions were held, eleven inquiries were made, eleven verdicts were returned.

"Men are influenced in their verdicts much more by prejudice or favour, or greed of gain, or anger, or indignation, or pleasure, or hope or fear, or by misapprehension, or by some excitement of their feelings, than either by the facts of the case, or by established precedents, or by any rules or principles whatever either of law or equity".

The period in which the buyer might apply for redress, however, was limited to a few months, and the verdicts of juries were uncertain.

Therefore a man who is gifted with a keen sense of physiognomy should pay careful attention to those verdicts prior to a further acquaintance, and therefore genuine.

The Deputy who is Commissioner for this department is one Le Bon, formerly a priestand, I understand, of an immoral and sanguinary character, and that it is he who chiefly directs the verdicts of the juries according to his personal hatred or his personal interest.

There is a great truth underlying phrenology, palmistry, and astrology; but it is ridiculous to accept their verdicts as final and unchangeable, and it is unwise to ignore the good they may do, rightly applied and understood.

Questions of race, religion, politics, labor and the like have always awakened violent feelings on all sides, have made bitter partisans and strict lines of cleavage, and have made verdicts of juries and judgments of courts the result of fear and hatred.

I felt the power within me to paint; I cultivated it, and have produced works that have won the favorable verdicts of the great judges.

"Due form of law is that alone wherein the ualidity of verdicts and judgments in such cases stands and if a real and apparent murtherer be condemned and executed out of due form of law it is inditable against them that do it for in such case the law is superseded by arbitrary doings.

It was a labored, and in part eloquent, exposition of the necessary fallibility of human judgment, illustrated by numerous examples of erroneous verdicts.

The black dress which she still worethe orthodox twelve months of mourning for a parent had not yet quite elapsedwas now fresh, and of fine quality, and the pale lilies of her face were interspersed with delicate roses; whilst by her side sat Mr. John Wilford, as happy-looking as if no such things as perjurers, forgers, or adverse verdicts existed to disturb the peace of the glad world.

A lawyer's life leaves little to be recorded; the triumphs of the bar are proverbially ephemeral, and lawyers themselves are willing to forget the cases they have tried and the verdicts they have won.