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It was Thomas Laidlaw's voice. "Moderator, we hae heard but ae side. There's aye twa sides. Will ye no' let the accused speak for himsel'? Fair play is bonny play." A moment's thought was enough to assure me as to what was right. "By all means," I answered, sadly enough, for I had but little hope that any defense could be offered. "Mr. Blake may certainly speak if he wishes it is but fair.
If the Republic can provide for French national defense and can keep for France the position in Europe to which she is entitled, the Republic will probably endure. And in that case it will certainly deserve to endure, because it will have faced and overcome the most exacting possible national peril.
Colby, that Miss Stanton's suggestion will afford you an excellent line of defense." "I shall not neglect it, you may be sure," replied the lawyer. "Tonight I'll try to figure out, as nearly as possible, the total cash value of all the stolen pearls, and of course Jones will tell us what he paid for his stock, or how much it is worth.
This is but a bit of psychological document, and even so, I haven't written it with a view to put forward any conclusion of my own." But my objector was not placated. These were good reasons for not writing at all not a defense of what stood written already, he said. I admit that almost anything, anything in the world, would serve as a good reason for not writing at all.
But no Roman ever gave a nobler proof of contempt of danger, and devotion to duty, than was afforded by the intrepid lawyers, Malesherbes, De Séze, and Tronchet, who voluntarily undertook the king's defense, though Louis himself warned them that their utmost efforts would be fruitless, and would only bring destruction on themselves without saving him.
It was he who, more than any one else, was responsible for the publication of Morse's "Defense" against Professor Henry. The letter was written from Louisville on January 9, 1848, and contains the following sentences: "We are going ahead with the line to New Orleans. I have twenty-five hands on the road to Nashville, and will put on more next week.
These bridgeheads were protected by forts manned by machine guns, and the approaches were commanded by heavy artillery fire, but defense was destroyed in the middle of May, 1915. The Germans concentrated their efforts against the Belgians at one point between Ypres and Dixmude. They bombarded the trenches, using bombs filled with poisonous gas.
He perceived, immediately on hearing the fugitives' story, that a very favorable opportunity was opening for him to add Naxos, and perhaps even the neighboring islands, to his own government. It is always a favorable opportunity to subjugate a people when their power of defense and of resistance is neutralized by dissensions with one another.
"An utterly incorrigible girl. I am Special Terrestrial Officer the Reverend Jones. The case was assigned to me. The girl murdered her fiance and committed suicide. She had no defense. My report to the court relates the facts in detail, all of which are substantiated by reliable witnesses. The wages of sin is death. Praise the Lord." The court officer opened the door and stepped out.
But with her next question Conscience forced him from his defense of jocular evasiveness. "Did you know, Stuart, that that Mrs. Holbury came to see me?" He feared that she had caught his flinch of surprise at that announcement but he replied evenly: "Marian wrote to me that she had seen you. How you two happened to meet, I have never guessed."
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