Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesWilliam Newland Welsby S. Sweet, 1846 - 562 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... principles like those of Hale should have been nurtured amid the storms of such a season , or that , being such as he was , he should have been sought after by all parties for such high elevation , and attended there by such universal ...
... principles like those of Hale should have been nurtured amid the storms of such a season , or that , being such as he was , he should have been sought after by all parties for such high elevation , and attended there by such universal ...
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... principles : and the young lawyer's schoolmaster and college tutor were both inclined to that way of thinking , as we might judge , were there no other evidence of the fact , by the unqualified abuse which Mr. Anthony Wood has lavished ...
... principles : and the young lawyer's schoolmaster and college tutor were both inclined to that way of thinking , as we might judge , were there no other evidence of the fact , by the unqualified abuse which Mr. Anthony Wood has lavished ...
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... principle ; while those who see no virtue but in unbending adherence to a party , have naturally condemned and ... principles he had adopted , strictly right . We do not impeach for a moment the high virtue of many of those who ...
... principle ; while those who see no virtue but in unbending adherence to a party , have naturally condemned and ... principles he had adopted , strictly right . We do not impeach for a moment the high virtue of many of those who ...
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... inward serenity of thy own conscience , in the midst of the mistakes and prejudices of others . " At the same time it must be admitted , that , although Hale was in principle a royalist , and had a strong SIR MATTHEW HALE . 9.
... inward serenity of thy own conscience , in the midst of the mistakes and prejudices of others . " At the same time it must be admitted , that , although Hale was in principle a royalist , and had a strong SIR MATTHEW HALE . 9.
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... principles which he had partially adopted before ; he refused Richard Cromwell's commission . In the new Parliament of 1658 he represented the University of Oxford , which learned body sought likewise to secure his services in the ...
... principles which he had partially adopted before ; he refused Richard Cromwell's commission . In the new Parliament of 1658 he represented the University of Oxford , which learned body sought likewise to secure his services in the ...
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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.