Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench, and Woolsack, Volume 3J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 - Law |
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... Sir Julius Cæsar Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury The Revels of the Inns of Court Did Sir Thomas More persecute Heretics ? Judicial Politeness Calling to the Bar Character of Lord Hardwicke , by Lord Chesterfield Charles the Second's Visit ...
... Sir Julius Cæsar Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury The Revels of the Inns of Court Did Sir Thomas More persecute Heretics ? Judicial Politeness Calling to the Bar Character of Lord Hardwicke , by Lord Chesterfield Charles the Second's Visit ...
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... Lord Hardwicke ) • • 105 Sir Thomas More • Public Life of Sir Edward Coke Character of Sir Matthew Hale . 107 . 108 128 Lord Chancellor Bathurst 135 Mr. Sergeant Maynard 137 Festival at the Inner Temple 142 Mr. Justice Buller 149 ...
... Lord Hardwicke ) • • 105 Sir Thomas More • Public Life of Sir Edward Coke Character of Sir Matthew Hale . 107 . 108 128 Lord Chancellor Bathurst 135 Mr. Sergeant Maynard 137 Festival at the Inner Temple 142 Mr. Justice Buller 149 ...
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... LORD HARDWICKE , BY LORD CHESTERFIELD . " Lord Hardwicke was , perhaps , the greatest magistrate this country ever had . He presided in the Court of Chancery above twenty years , and in all that time none of his decrees were ever re ...
... LORD HARDWICKE , BY LORD CHESTERFIELD . " Lord Hardwicke was , perhaps , the greatest magistrate this country ever had . He presided in the Court of Chancery above twenty years , and in all that time none of his decrees were ever re ...
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Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench, and Woolsack Henry Roscoe. y Is were parts ts to ca ake . ring t rsimon ablishe is- and ad torney alled , and , but de he the LORD HARDWICKE . W Read Sc .
Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench, and Woolsack Henry Roscoe. y Is were parts ts to ca ake . ring t rsimon ablishe is- and ad torney alled , and , but de he the LORD HARDWICKE . W Read Sc .
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... Hardwicke , whose character and conduct will adorn the most interesting period in the history of this age and ... Lord King , in October , 1723 , Sir Philip Yorke waived his own pretensions , founded on both merit and priority of rank , in ...
... Hardwicke , whose character and conduct will adorn the most interesting period in the history of this age and ... Lord King , in October , 1723 , Sir Philip Yorke waived his own pretensions , founded on both merit and priority of rank , in ...
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Page 40 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working out, its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
Page 40 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known. Since in another's guilt they find their own!
Page 156 - ... the little he knew, and the little good that was in him, to the friendships and conversation he had still been used to, of the most excellent men in their several kinds that lived in that age : by whose learning, and information, and instruction, he formed his studies, and mended his understanding : and by whose gentleness and sweetness of behaviour, and justice, and virtue, and example, he formed his manners, subdued that pride, and suppressed that heat and passion he was naturally inclined...
Page 112 - To which it was answered by me, that true it was that God had endowed his Majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature, but his Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England ; and causes which concern the life or inheritance or goods or fortunes of his subjects are not to be decided by natural reason but by the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an act which requires long study and experience before that a man can attain to the cognizance of it...
Page 159 - ... in his conversation he was the most clear discourser, and had the best faculty of making hard things easy, and presenting them to the understanding, of any man that hath been known.
Page 156 - Selden was a person whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds and in all languages, (as may appear in his excellent and transcendent writings,) that a man would have thought he had been entirely conversant amongst books, and had never spent an hour but in reading and writing...
Page 10 - I say no more, but that, to give every man his due, had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports, (which though they may have errors, and some peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted ; yet they contain infinite good decisions, and rulings over of cases,) the law, by this time, had been almost like a ship without ballast ; for that the cases of modern experience are fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former time.
Page 159 - ... his humanity, courtesy, and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity, and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
Page 112 - King said, that he thought the law was founded upon reason, and that he and others had reason, as well as the Judges: to which it was answered by me, that true it was, that God had endowed His Majesty with excellent science, and great endowments of nature; but His Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods, or fortunes of his subjects...
Page 259 - That certainly would Verus. I have seen an old trial where he sat Judge on two of them ; one was called Tricktrack, the other Tear-shift : one was a learned judge of sharpers ; the other the quickest of all men at finding out a wench. Trick-track never spared a pickpocket, but was a companion to cheats ; Tear-shift would make compliments to wenches 'of quality, but certainly commit poor ones.