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Pagina 13
... delivered by the Lord Keeper , how that it was a thing not to be done suddenly , nor scarce a year would suffice to purge the statute book , the volumes of law being so many in number that neither common people can half practise them ...
... delivered by the Lord Keeper , how that it was a thing not to be done suddenly , nor scarce a year would suffice to purge the statute book , the volumes of law being so many in number that neither common people can half practise them ...
Pagina 14
... delivered a flaming oration against the Court , running a serious risk of being sent to the Tower , and punished by the Star Chamber for his presumption . The Queen demanded six subsidies , to be paid in three years . The grant of ...
... delivered a flaming oration against the Court , running a serious risk of being sent to the Tower , and punished by the Star Chamber for his presumption . The Queen demanded six subsidies , to be paid in three years . The grant of ...
Pagina 30
... delivered when Double Reader of Gray's Inn , a tract which we now possess , and which shows the legal acuteness of a Fearne or a Sugden . He did not himself undervalue his exertions in placing the law on the satisfactory footing on ...
... delivered when Double Reader of Gray's Inn , a tract which we now possess , and which shows the legal acuteness of a Fearne or a Sugden . He did not himself undervalue his exertions in placing the law on the satisfactory footing on ...
Pagina 43
... delivered , and the efforts made to put down the frightful grievance of monopolies . Bacon being again returned as a member of the House of Commons , we may believe that he was at first not only shunned by the friends of Essex , but ...
... delivered , and the efforts made to put down the frightful grievance of monopolies . Bacon being again returned as a member of the House of Commons , we may believe that he was at first not only shunned by the friends of Essex , but ...
Pagina 50
... deliver him . " Note . Mr. Attorney sat down in a chafe , and would speak no more until the Commis- sioners urged and entreated him . After much ado he went on , and made a long repetition of all the evidence for the direction of the ...
... deliver him . " Note . Mr. Attorney sat down in a chafe , and would speak no more until the Commis- sioners urged and entreated him . After much ado he went on , and made a long repetition of all the evidence for the direction of the ...
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Pagina 79 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Pagina 142 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell .and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth...
Pagina 11 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends...
Pagina 26 - That the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence," is a man's self, certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise.
Pagina 107 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Pagina 50 - I will now make it appear to the world, that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou...
Pagina 178 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat ? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father : and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Pagina 226 - And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know.
Pagina 142 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Pagina 136 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.