Judgment
Judgment or judgement implies a balanced weighing up of evidence preparatory to making a decision. A formal process of evaluation applies.Contrast choice[?].
Judgment is also the formal decree of a court pronouncing a sentence , imposing a legal liability, issuing an injunction, or finally and conclusively denying them.
with other foreigners might be as profitable as slavery to the Spanish
Ternate, Tydor, and other Molucca islands. The king.html">King of Candy on the
those tropical seas, was glad to learn how to exchange the spices.html">spices of the
which found their great emporium in Holland. Jacob Heemskerk, too, who
his famous winter in Nova Zembla, was now seeking adventures and carrying
The King of Johor on the Malayan peninsula entered into friendly
rulers, to obtain protection against the Portuguese whom he had so long
Malacca of an immense Lisbon carrack, laden with pearls and spices,
attack. It is true.html">true that the roving Hollander merely commanded a couple
But when was Jacob Heemskerk ever known to shrink from an encounter--
forlorn hope against a Spanish fort, or from assailing a Portuguese
seventeen guns, and at least eight times as many men as he commanded.
of the carrack: He spared the lives of his seven hundred prisoners, and
handful of Dutchmen they had surrendered. Then dividing about a million
among the spice-islands more attractive than wintering at the North Pole,
convincing the authorities of the celestial empire that the friendship of
other regions for the hardy Hollander--such as was to make the name of
he returned to his own country to take part in the great industrial
in their work. From Java they sailed to Banda; and on those volcanic
a treaty with its republican antipodes. For there was no king to be
and the Germanic, dealt with each other with direct and becoming
ideas of the day, which assumed monopoly as the true basis of national
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