No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.