Observations on a Pamphlet Lately Published, Entitled, the Genuine and Legal Sentence Pronounced by the High Court of Judicature of Portugal Upon the Conspirators Against the Life of His Most Faithful Majesty
Observations on a Pamphlet Lately Published, Entitled, the Genuine and Legal Sentence Pronounced by the High Court of Judicature of Portugal Upon the Conspirators Against the Life of His Most Faithful Majesty
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1759 edition. Excerpt: ... no no more for hanging a man than accufing him: for proofs of innocence may not always be in the power of the moft innocent to produce. The 23d Seflion fays, that the law prefumes he who has once been bad will always be fuch, in crimes of the fame fpecies with that he has already committed: and adds, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1759 edition. Excerpt: ... no no more for hanging a man than accufing him: for proofs of innocence may not always be in the power of the moft innocent to produce. The 23d Seflion fays, that the law prefumes he who has once been bad will always be fuch, in crimes of the fame fpecies with that he has already committed: and adds, that not one, but many have been the iniquities the two ring-leaders have meditated againft the King and his Government. Let me obferve here, that they do not mention which thofe two ring-leaders were, nor what the iniquities are that they had formerly meditated. And fure the Law-makers, or the interpreter of them, muft have been ftrange men, to think there can be no fuch thing in nature as a repenting finner. The 24th Seflion fets forth the ufurpations of the Jefuits in the Portuguese dominions of Afia, Africa and America: accufes them of fcandals and intrigues againft his Majefty: and of being the devifers of the attempt againft his Majefty's life. Thefe allegations are ftrengthened, in Seftion the 2 5th, by fuppofing the perfons moft interefted in committing fuch crimes are the committers thereof: adding, " The faid Jefuits having all the grand interejis 'which have been mentioned (and 'which by their own afls and deeds they manifeftedin this confpiracy) in caufing an end to be put to the 'moft mojl precious fife of our Lord The King, and to his Majefly's moft happy Government; this Jingle prefumption of the law-would alfv bejufficient to its being held for an uncontrovertible proof, according to law, that the faid Jefuits 'were the criminals guilty of this execrable crime; principally when it is conjidcred, That Only An Ambition Such As Theirs, Of MakIng A Conquest Of The Dominions Of This Realm, Could Bear Any ProporTion And Parity With...
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