Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesWilliam Newland Welsby S. Sweet, 1846 - 562 pagina's |
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... COWPER LORD HARCOURT LORD MACCLESFIELD . LORD KING LORD TALBOT LORD HARDWICKE SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE LORD BATHURST LORD MANSFIELD LORD CAMDEN LORD THURLOW LORD ASHBURTON PAGE . 1 26 51 90 135 172 204 • 240 263 281 . 327 352 . 368 449 ...
... COWPER LORD HARCOURT LORD MACCLESFIELD . LORD KING LORD TALBOT LORD HARDWICKE SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE LORD BATHURST LORD MANSFIELD LORD CAMDEN LORD THURLOW LORD ASHBURTON PAGE . 1 26 51 90 135 172 204 • 240 263 281 . 327 352 . 368 449 ...
Pagina 134
... had the stores of judicial wisdom gathered from his lips during twenty years : -they had what was even more valuable , the influence and the example of his virtues . 135 LORD COWPER . THE ancient and wealthy family of 134 SIR JOHN HOLT .
... had the stores of judicial wisdom gathered from his lips during twenty years : -they had what was even more valuable , the influence and the example of his virtues . 135 LORD COWPER . THE ancient and wealthy family of 134 SIR JOHN HOLT .
Pagina 135
William Newland Welsby. 135 LORD COWPER . THE ancient and wealthy family of Cowper , settled for several centuries in the county of Hertford , and having besides con- siderable possessions in Kent and Sussex , is traced back in lineal ...
William Newland Welsby. 135 LORD COWPER . THE ancient and wealthy family of Cowper , settled for several centuries in the county of Hertford , and having besides con- siderable possessions in Kent and Sussex , is traced back in lineal ...
Pagina 136
... Cowper , the Chancellor's younger brother , in whose family it remained till within the last twenty years . so profusely , and which then not only gave professional 136 LORD COWPER .
... Cowper , the Chancellor's younger brother , in whose family it remained till within the last twenty years . so profusely , and which then not only gave professional 136 LORD COWPER .
Pagina 137
... Cowper , who certainly , ac- cording to the report in the State Trials , easily outdid his colleagues in oratory at least , if not in law . The case next tried , that against Rookwood , Lowick , and Cranborne , fell within the new act ...
... Cowper , who certainly , ac- cording to the report in the State Trials , easily outdid his colleagues in oratory at least , if not in law . The case next tried , that against Rookwood , Lowick , and Cranborne , fell within the new act ...
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Pagina 332 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Pagina 466 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so. crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...
Pagina 279 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Pagina 355 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues ,, which made him one of the most amiable as he is one of the most fortunate men of his age, had opened to him in vision that when, in the fourth generation, the third prince ,, of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation which (by the happy issue of moderate and healing...
Pagina 238 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Pagina 355 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall jary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!
Pagina 355 - ... was to be made Great Britain, he should see his son, Lord Chancellor of England, turn back the current of hereditary dignity to its fountain, and raise him to a higher rank of peerage, whilst he enriched the family with a new one.
Pagina 354 - It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress.
Pagina 479 - pray what do you mean by the question?" " Why," replied Garrick, with an affected indifference, yet as if standing on tip-toe, " Lord Camden has this moment left me. We have had a long walk together.
Pagina 238 - For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little: And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died, fearing God.