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A Selection of Cases Illustrative of the English Law of Tort (Paperback)
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A Selection of Cases Illustrative of the English Law of Tort (Paperback)
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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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...wares in the name of Heaven,
and the mob will hasten to deck him out in purple and fine linen
When Dr Campbell" (meaning the plaintiff) " has finished his
Chinese letters, he will be a greater simpleton than we take him
for if he does not force ofi' another 100,000 copies of his paper
by launching a fresh series of thunderbolts against the powers of
darkness. In the meanwhile, -there can be no doubt that he is
making a very good thing indeed of the spiritual wants of the
Chinese." And the plaintiff, by reason of the premises, has been
greatly injured, scandalized and aggrieved. And the plaintiff
claims 1000. Plea: Not guilty. On the trial, before Cockburn, C.J.,
at the Sittings at Guildhall after Hilary Term, it appeared that
the defendant was the Printer of a weekly newspaper or periodical
called The Satu/rday Review 'if Politics, Literature, Science and
Art, and that the libels complained of were published in an article
headed "The Heathens' Best Friend," contained in the number for
June 14th, 1862. The plaintiff was a minister of a dissenting
congregation, and the editor and part proprietor of The British
Ensign and The Bfitish Standard, which were dissenting newspapers
or periodicals. Extracts from the former were put in evidence,
containing a, proposal to publish in it a series of letters to the
Queen and persons of note on the subject and duty of evangelizing
the Chinese, and to promote as widely as possible the circulation
of the numbers of the paper in which those letters should appear,
in order to call the attention of missionaries and others to the
importance of this work of evangelization. A series of letters
accordingly appeared in The British Ensign, the three first of
which, ...
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