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1 Celebrated Trials of All Countries, and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence 1835

handle is hein.trials/xallcon0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CELEBRATED TRIALS
OF ALL COUNTRIES,
AND
REMARKABLE CASES OF CRIMINAL
JURISPRUDENCE.
SELECTED BY
A MEMBER OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR.

Tom Annals of Criminal Jurisprudence exhibit human nature in avariety of positions, at
once the most striking, interesting, and affecting. They present tragedies of real life, often
heightened in their effect by the grossness of the injustice, and the malignity of the prejudices
which accompanied them. At the same time real culprits, as original characters, stand
forward on the canvas of humanity as prorAinent objects for our special study. I have
often wondered that the English language contains no book like the Causes Celebres of the
French, particularly as the openness of our proceedings renders the records more certain
and accessible, while our public history and domestic conflicts have afforded so many splen.
did examples of the unfortunate and the guilty. Such a collection, drawn from our own
national sources, and varied by references to cases of the continental nations, would exhibit
man as he is in action and principal, and not as he is usually drawn by poets and speculative
philosophers.                                                       BUrKE.
E. L. CAREY AND A. HART,
AND FOR    SALE BY ALL        BOOKSELLERS.
1835.

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