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Page 110
... feeling and scale of principle which then prevailed . If in his public character Lord Guilford never rose above the prejudices and feelings of the age , he did not , like many of his contemporaries , sink without shame into those ...
... feeling and scale of principle which then prevailed . If in his public character Lord Guilford never rose above the prejudices and feelings of the age , he did not , like many of his contemporaries , sink without shame into those ...
Page 134
... feelings which cruelty and oppression excite , render it difficult to form a cool and impartial opinion of the character of Jefferies . In all the essential qualities of mind which a judge ought to possess , he seems to have been ...
... feelings which cruelty and oppression excite , render it difficult to form a cool and impartial opinion of the character of Jefferies . In all the essential qualities of mind which a judge ought to possess , he seems to have been ...
Page 393
... feelings with which he contemplated the entering upon his profession , -feelings which betray the nervous and susceptible tem- perament with which he had to struggle . " The nearer I approach the term , which I formerly so often wished ...
... feelings with which he contemplated the entering upon his profession , -feelings which betray the nervous and susceptible tem- perament with which he had to struggle . " The nearer I approach the term , which I formerly so often wished ...
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