The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, Volume 3F. D. Linn, 1878 - Great Britain |
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... matter , commended his horse to the attentions of the ostler , and boldly bespoke the best supper and bed the house afforded . Strolling into the kitchen , he observed there the daughter of the landlady , a girl of about thirteen years ...
... matter , commended his horse to the attentions of the ostler , and boldly bespoke the best supper and bed the house afforded . Strolling into the kitchen , he observed there the daughter of the landlady , a girl of about thirteen years ...
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... matter . " " He likewise put an end to the revolting practice of trying prisoners in fetters . Hearing a clanking when Cranburne , charged with being implicated in the " As- sassination Plot , " was brought to the bar to be arraigned ...
... matter . " " He likewise put an end to the revolting practice of trying prisoners in fetters . Hearing a clanking when Cranburne , charged with being implicated in the " As- sassination Plot , " was brought to the bar to be arraigned ...
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... matters that cannot be supported ; and we shall take care that they do not tend to your Lordship's prejudice . We consider the condition you are in ; you stand at the bar for your life ; you shall have all the fair and just dealing that ...
... matters that cannot be supported ; and we shall take care that they do not tend to your Lordship's prejudice . We consider the condition you are in ; you stand at the bar for your life ; you shall have all the fair and just dealing that ...
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... " Now , Sir John Friend insists , as a matter of law , that as the statute of Edward III . makes two treasons , 113 St. Tr . 154 . * Ib . 263 . 8 Ib . I one compassing the death of the King , and another 1696. ] 29 JOHN HOLT .
... " Now , Sir John Friend insists , as a matter of law , that as the statute of Edward III . makes two treasons , 113 St. Tr . 154 . * Ib . 263 . 8 Ib . I one compassing the death of the King , and another 1696. ] 29 JOHN HOLT .
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... matter , and those who do know are not employed ; that men are not adapted to offices , but offices to men , out of a particular regard to their interest and not to their fitness . ' The defendant was accordingly found guilty . ' 114 St ...
... matter , and those who do know are not employed ; that men are not adapted to offices , but offices to men , out of a particular regard to their interest and not to their fitness . ' The defendant was accordingly found guilty . ' 114 St ...
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Page 70 - And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Page 29 - If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it.
Page 381 - Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Page 393 - I thank God that I have been enabled to come here this day — to perform my duty, and to speak on a subject which has so deeply impressed my mind. I am old and infirm — have one foot, more than one foot, in the grave — I am risen from my bed, to stand up in the cause of my country — perhaps never again to speak in this House.
Page 377 - Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 237 - To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence,' As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death...
Page 393 - ... of my country, I would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this, unjust in its principle, impracticable in its means, and ruinous in its consequences, I would not contribute a single effort, nor a single shilling. I do not call for vengeance on the heads of those who have been guilty; I only recommend to them to make their retreat. Let them walk off; and let them make haste, or they may be assured that speedy and condign punishment will overtake them.
Page 368 - Our language has no term of reproach, the mind has no idea of detestation, which has not already been happily applied to you, and exhausted. — Ample justice has been done by abler pens than mine to the separate merits of your life and character. Let it be my humble office to collect the scattered sweets, till their united virtue tortures the sense.
Page 226 - Noble and young, who strikes the heart With every sprightly, every decent part ; Equal the injured to defend, To charm the mistress or to fix the friend ; He, with a hundred arts refined, Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind.
Page 110 - The only force that doth excuse is a force upon the person, and present fear of death ; and this force and fear must continue all the time the party remains with the rebels.