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Page 5
Talk what you can , we will never believe you ; you have still a cat's heart within
you . You do not watch and pray , but you watch to prey . And so have the jesuits ,
yea , and priests too ; for they are all joined in the tails like Samson's foxes .
Talk what you can , we will never believe you ; you have still a cat's heart within
you . You do not watch and pray , but you watch to prey . And so have the jesuits ,
yea , and priests too ; for they are all joined in the tails like Samson's foxes .
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.as much to ages , if I should write a story , that never man's person and his place
were better met in a business than my Lord Coke and my lord chief justice in the
cause of Overbury . ” Much of the mystery in which these infamous proceedings ...
.as much to ages , if I should write a story , that never man's person and his place
were better met in a business than my Lord Coke and my lord chief justice in the
cause of Overbury . ” Much of the mystery in which these infamous proceedings ...
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He was in years , and of a tender constitution ; he had for many years enjoyed his
ease which he loved ; he was rich , and would not have made a journey to York ,
or have lain out of his bed , for any preferment , which he had never affected .
He was in years , and of a tender constitution ; he had for many years enjoyed his
ease which he loved ; he was rich , and would not have made a journey to York ,
or have lain out of his bed , for any preferment , which he had never affected .
Page 55
At length , in the year 1654 , the constitution of Selden began to give way , and a
frame never remarkably robust yielded to the pressure of age and infirmities .
Conscious of the change which was approaching , he suinmoned to E 4 JOHN ...
At length , in the year 1654 , the constitution of Selden began to give way , and a
frame never remarkably robust yielded to the pressure of age and infirmities .
Conscious of the change which was approaching , he suinmoned to E 4 JOHN ...
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I believe , a more shame - faced creature than he was never came into the world ;
he could scarce bear the being seen in any public places . I have heard him say ,
that when he was a student , and ate in the Temple hall , if he saw any ...
I believe , a more shame - faced creature than he was never came into the world ;
he could scarce bear the being seen in any public places . I have heard him say ,
that when he was a student , and ate in the Temple hall , if he saw any ...
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Page 2 - 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 64 - That there were such creatures as witches he made no doubt at all ; For first, the scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime. And such hath been the judgment of this kingdom, as appears by that act of parliament which hath provided punishments proportionable to the quality of the offence.
Page 274 - I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right honourable house, as keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his majesty's conscience, as lord high chancellor of England, nay, even in that character alone in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Page 341 - said the jealous ruler over the desert, encroached upon by the restless foot of English adventure, "who is it that causes this river to rise in the high mountains, and to empty itself into the ocean? Who is it that causes to blow the loud winds of winter, and that calms them again in the summer?
Page 346 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Page 64 - That there were such creatures as witches, he 'made no doubt at all, For, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Page 194 - I pass over many anonymous letters I have received. Those in print are public, and some of them have been brought judicially before the court. Whoever the writers are. they take the wrong way ! I will do my duty unawed. What am I to fear? That "mendax infamia" from the press, which daily coins false facts and false motives?
Page 287 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 274 - Seal, as guardian of his Majesty's conscience, as Lord High Chancellor of England — nay, even in that character alone in which the noble Duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Eminent British Lawyers Volume 99 of The cabinet cyclopędia. Biography. [v. 99] cabinet of biography |
| Author | Henry Roscoe |
| Publisher | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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