Practical ProhibitionT. C. Johnson & Company, 1887 - 383 pages |
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... Court of our district , but while he occupied , with distinction , a seat upon the Supreme Bench of Texas . Before the ink was dry upon my license , I was employed as counsel in two cases of some importance , on the docket of the court ...
... Court of our district , but while he occupied , with distinction , a seat upon the Supreme Bench of Texas . Before the ink was dry upon my license , I was employed as counsel in two cases of some importance , on the docket of the court ...
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... court room taking notes of the proceedings with a view of learning the practical part of my chosen profession . I paid close attention to every speech that was made , and generally accepted everything the older lawyers said as the law ...
... court room taking notes of the proceedings with a view of learning the practical part of my chosen profession . I paid close attention to every speech that was made , and generally accepted everything the older lawyers said as the law ...
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... Athens , a little town about forty miles from Kaufman and in our judicial district . A week or so after the article was published I went to Athens to court , and , as was my custom in those days , SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE . 25.
... Athens , a little town about forty miles from Kaufman and in our judicial district . A week or so after the article was published I went to Athens to court , and , as was my custom in those days , SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE . 25.
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... court of Heaven , " and go about hurraing for the cause of the captain of the infernal regions . They cry " Good Lord " out of one side of their mouths , and " Most excellent devil " out of the other , alternating between the two sides ...
... court of Heaven , " and go about hurraing for the cause of the captain of the infernal regions . They cry " Good Lord " out of one side of their mouths , and " Most excellent devil " out of the other , alternating between the two sides ...
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... courts of the country was a thing rarely heard of , and the idea of sending a man to the penitentiary for stealing a yearling never entered into the mind of the most able and vigorous prosecuting attorney . It was regarded as no crime ...
... courts of the country was a thing rarely heard of , and the idea of sending a man to the penitentiary for stealing a yearling never entered into the mind of the most able and vigorous prosecuting attorney . It was regarded as no crime ...
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Page 173 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the states to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several states as provided by the Constitution: ARTICLE "SECTION 1.
Page 380 - ... brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness, not health; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and all of them paupers and beggars. It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, imports pestilence, and embraces consumption. It covers the land with idleness, misery, and crime.
Page 344 - Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person, who shall be injured in person or property, or means of support, by any intoxicated .person, or in consequence of the intoxication, habitual or otherwise, of any person...
Page 259 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Page 380 - It violates obligations, reverences fraud, and honors infamy. It defames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue, and slanders innocence. It incites the father to butcher his helpless offspring, helps the husband to massacre his wife, and the child to grind the parricidal axe.
Page 366 - The Legislature shall not pass any act authorizing the grant of license for the sale of ardent spirits or other intoxicating liquors.] SEC.
Page 357 - No person shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or keep for sale, as a beverage, any intoxicating liquors whatever, including ale, wine, and beer. The General Assembly shall by law prescribe regulations for the enforcement of the prohibition herein contained, and shall thereby provide suitable penalties for the violation of the provision hereof.] [The foregoing amendment was adopted at a special election held on June 27,1882.
Page 223 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page 151 - The legislature shall at its first session enact a law whereby the qualified voters of any county, justice's precinct, town...
Page 345 - Republican party of this state, in the senate and assembly, to support a resolution providing for the submission to the people of an amendment to the constitution, under which amendment it will be the duty of the governor to appoint the secretary of state, the state treasurer, the comptroller, the attorney-general, and the state engineer and surveyor, leaving only the governor and lieutenant-governor as elective state executive officers.