-
Articles/Ads
Article FATE OF THE UNFORTUNATE MUNRO. ← Page 2 of 2 Article THE SPEECH OF MISS POLLY BAKER, Page 1 of 3 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Fate Of The Unfortunate Munro.
the place , and much noise and laughing at the time ; but this ferocious animal disregarded all . _ The human mind cannot form an idea of the scene ; ~ it turned my very soul within me . The beast was about four and half feet high and nine long . His head appeared as large as an ox ' s , his eyes fireand his when he first seized his preywitl never
darting , roar , , be out of my recollection . We had scarcely pushed our boats from that cursed shore , when the tigress made her appearance , ¦ raging mad almost , and remaining on the sand as long as the distance would allow me to see her .
The Speech Of Miss Polly Baker,
THE SPEECH OF MISS POLLY BAKER ,
Before a Court of Judicature , at Connecticut in America ; where she was prosecuted the Fifth Time , for having a bastard Child : Which influenced the Court to dispense with her punishment , and induced one of her Judges to marry her the next Day , by whom she has had Fifteen Children .
MAY it please this honorable bench to indulge me in a few words : I am a poor unhappy woman , who have no money to fee lawyers to plead for me , being hard put to it to get a tolerable living . I shall not trouble your honours with long speeches ; for I have not the presumption to expect , that you may , by any means , be prevailed on to deviate in your sentence from the law , that honours would
in my favour . All I humbly hope is , your charitably move the governor ' s goodness on my behalf , that my fine may be remitted . This is the fifth time , gentlemen , that I have been dragged before your court on the same account ; twice I have paid heavy fines , and twice have been brought to public punishment , for want of money to pay those fines . This may t itbut since
have been agreeable to the laws , and I don ' dispute ; laws are sometimes unreasonable in themselves , and therefore repealed , and others bear too hard on the subject in particular instances ; and therefore there is left a power somewhat to dispense with the execution of them ; I take the liberty to say , that I think this law , by which 1 am punished , is both unreasonable in itself , who have lived
and particularly severe with regard to me , always an inoffensive " life in the neighbourhood where I was born , and defy ~ my enemies ( if 1 have any ) to say I ever wronged man , woman , or child . Abstracted from the law , I cannot conceiv e ( may it please vour honours ) what the nature of my offence is , 1 have brought " five fine children into the world , at the risque of mv life ; , I have maintained them well by my own industry , without burthening the township , and would have done it better , i f it fcadnot been for the heavy charges and fines I have paid . Can it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Fate Of The Unfortunate Munro.
the place , and much noise and laughing at the time ; but this ferocious animal disregarded all . _ The human mind cannot form an idea of the scene ; ~ it turned my very soul within me . The beast was about four and half feet high and nine long . His head appeared as large as an ox ' s , his eyes fireand his when he first seized his preywitl never
darting , roar , , be out of my recollection . We had scarcely pushed our boats from that cursed shore , when the tigress made her appearance , ¦ raging mad almost , and remaining on the sand as long as the distance would allow me to see her .
The Speech Of Miss Polly Baker,
THE SPEECH OF MISS POLLY BAKER ,
Before a Court of Judicature , at Connecticut in America ; where she was prosecuted the Fifth Time , for having a bastard Child : Which influenced the Court to dispense with her punishment , and induced one of her Judges to marry her the next Day , by whom she has had Fifteen Children .
MAY it please this honorable bench to indulge me in a few words : I am a poor unhappy woman , who have no money to fee lawyers to plead for me , being hard put to it to get a tolerable living . I shall not trouble your honours with long speeches ; for I have not the presumption to expect , that you may , by any means , be prevailed on to deviate in your sentence from the law , that honours would
in my favour . All I humbly hope is , your charitably move the governor ' s goodness on my behalf , that my fine may be remitted . This is the fifth time , gentlemen , that I have been dragged before your court on the same account ; twice I have paid heavy fines , and twice have been brought to public punishment , for want of money to pay those fines . This may t itbut since
have been agreeable to the laws , and I don ' dispute ; laws are sometimes unreasonable in themselves , and therefore repealed , and others bear too hard on the subject in particular instances ; and therefore there is left a power somewhat to dispense with the execution of them ; I take the liberty to say , that I think this law , by which 1 am punished , is both unreasonable in itself , who have lived
and particularly severe with regard to me , always an inoffensive " life in the neighbourhood where I was born , and defy ~ my enemies ( if 1 have any ) to say I ever wronged man , woman , or child . Abstracted from the law , I cannot conceiv e ( may it please vour honours ) what the nature of my offence is , 1 have brought " five fine children into the world , at the risque of mv life ; , I have maintained them well by my own industry , without burthening the township , and would have done it better , i f it fcadnot been for the heavy charges and fines I have paid . Can it