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A Manual of English Grammar . By the Rev . J . M . M'Culloch . Second Edition . This grammar seems to us better to deserve the appellations of philosophical and practical * than any with which we are acquainted . The etymological portion of it will be found alike useful and amusing .
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A Catechism of Political Economy . By Thomas Murray , LL . D . Of this , as of most other works in the series to which it belongs , ( Oliver and Boyd ' s * Catechisms of Elementary Knowledge' ) we cannot but wonder- that the catechetical form should have been adopted . It H a sheer incumbrance . Waving this general objection , the one before us deserves much praise . It is a brief treatise , well arranged ; a very cheap and convenient epitome of the science on which it treats .
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History and Present Condition of the Barbary States . By the Rev . Michael Russell , LL . D . This work bears marks of the known industry and ability of its author , who , while he has availed him&elfof the researchesof Heeren , in addition to the resources of his own learning , for the ancient history , has derived
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Objections to the present Practice in regard to unanimous Verdicts in our Criminal Courts . By a Juror . The writer of this pamphlet , Mr . Stephen Curtis , has very conclusively argued a point , to which not so much attention has been directed as it deserves . His object is to show that the unanimity of a jury is only
necessary to the conviction , not to the acquittal of the accused ; that 4 jury must agree to find him guilty , but need not agree to find him not guilty . ' According to the spirit of the institution of trial by jury , a man ought not to be held guilty unless twelve of his peers , sworn to decide according to the evidence , agree so to pronounce him . But is not this spirit violated when , the twelve not agreeing that he is guilty , they are confined in order to compel them to do so , or else to agree that he
is innocent ? Ought more to be required for his liberation than that tile evidence of his guilt has failed to convince all the jurors ? If but o » e juror be unconvinced , is there not an end of the case in theory ; a « d should there not be practically , without that species of coercion of charge , in him or in the rest , which commonly ensues ? So at least it should be , to make the one square with the other ; whether the institution itself may not need revision is another question .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/71/
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