SWSir William Blackstone

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Sir William Blackstone

Life dates: 1723 AD — 1780 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1751 AD

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength,—the floating bulwark of our island.

Sir William Blackstone / quote

02c. 1751 AD

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

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03c. 1751 AD

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

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04c. 1751 AD

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

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