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advocate answer appeared arbitration asked Attorney-General Belfast believe Bench called Carey Catholic Charles Russell client Commission counsel Court crime cross-examination Cushendall DEAR defendant Dreyfus duty Edward Fry England English evidence fact father feel Fenian Florence Maybrick gave Gladstone Government heard Herschell Home Rule honest honour interest Ireland Irish Irishman James John judge junior jury Killowen knew Lambri Land League letter Lincoln's Inn Liverpool London looked Lord Chief Justice Lord Coleridge Lord Russell Lord Salisbury matter ment mind morning mother murder never Newry Northern Circuit O'Donnell occasion once opinion Parliament Parnell Parnell Commission party Pigott plaintiff political question Rathmullan remember replied Russell of Killowen Russell's solicitor speak speech story Tadworth talk tell things thought tion told took trial Venezuela verdict witness word write wrote young
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Page 344 - There was a young lady of Niger, Who smiled as she rode on a tiger, They returned from the ride, With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger.
Page 98 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him ; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Page 211 - DEAR SIR, — I am not surprised at your friend's anger, but he and you should know that to denounce the murders was the only course open to us. To do that promptly was plainly our best policy. But you can tell him and all others concerned that though I regret the accident of Lord Frederick Cavendish's death, I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts.
Page 307 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Page 308 - In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow. I am nevertheless firm in my conviction that while it is a grievous thing to contemplate the two great Englishspeaking peoples of the world as being otherwise than friendly competitors in the onward march of civilization...
Page 277 - The judges are the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, and former Lord Chancellors.
Page 386 - With regard to the further allegation that he was in close and intimate association with the party of violence in America, and mainly instrumental in bringing about the alliance between that party and the Parnellite and Home Rule Party in America, we find that he was in such close and intimate association for the purpose of bringing about, and that he was mainly instrumental in bringing about, the alliance referred to.
Page 386 - We have shown in the course of the report that Mr Davitt was a member of the Fenian organisation, and convicted as such, and that he received money from a fund which had been contributed for the purpose of outrage and crime, viz, the Skirmishing Fund. It was not, however, for the formation of the Land League itself, but for the agitation which led up to it.
Page 307 - The course to be pursued by this Government, in view of the present condition, does not appear to admit of serious doubt. Having labored faithfully for many years to induce Great Britain to submit this dispute to impartial arbitration, and having been now finally apprised of her refusal to do so, nothing remains but to accept the situation, to recognize its plain requirements, and deal with it accordingly.
Page 307 - Venezuela will remain unchanged, the dispute has reached such a stage as to make it now incumbent upon the United States to take measures to determine with sufficient certainty for its justification what is the true divisional line l>etween the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana.