Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesWilliam Newland Welsby S. Sweet, 1846 - 562 pagina's |
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... known through the Memoir of Bishop Burnet - one of the most attractive among English biographies - that it is no easy matter to handle the same subject in a more modern fashion , with- out divesting it of some part of its merited ...
... known through the Memoir of Bishop Burnet - one of the most attractive among English biographies - that it is no easy matter to handle the same subject in a more modern fashion , with- out divesting it of some part of its merited ...
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... known as those which any outline of the life of Sir Matthew Hale can present . It is the fate of lawyers , for the most part , " virûm volitare per ora " during the brief duration of the splendid part of their life , more , perhaps ...
... known as those which any outline of the life of Sir Matthew Hale can present . It is the fate of lawyers , for the most part , " virûm volitare per ora " during the brief duration of the splendid part of their life , more , perhaps ...
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William Newland Welsby. note is so little generally known , as that of our ablest legal characters . Sir Matthew Hale forms a splendid exception to this rule : because the singular uprightness and piety of his life , which excited the ...
William Newland Welsby. note is so little generally known , as that of our ablest legal characters . Sir Matthew Hale forms a splendid exception to this rule : because the singular uprightness and piety of his life , which excited the ...
Pagina 12
... known anec- dote , Hale was for some time reluctant to accept the Pro- tector's commission , and plainly told him that he was not satisfied of his authority : to which Cromwell is said to have replied , " If you will not let me govern ...
... known anec- dote , Hale was for some time reluctant to accept the Pro- tector's commission , and plainly told him that he was not satisfied of his authority : to which Cromwell is said to have replied , " If you will not let me govern ...
Pagina 13
... known , after a short time his scru- ples prevented him from sitting on the crown side of his Court . We are not aware that his writings contain any ex- planation of the nature of the doubts which beset him on this occasion . If he was ...
... known , after a short time his scru- ples prevented him from sitting on the crown side of his Court . We are not aware that his writings contain any ex- planation of the nature of the doubts which beset him on this occasion . If he was ...
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Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries William Newland Welsby Volledige weergave - 1846 |
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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.