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... profession a jesuit , and a superior , as indeed he is superior to all his predecessors in devilish treason ; a doctor of jesuits , that is , a doctor of five D. D.'s , as dissimulation , deposing of princes , disposing of king- doms ...
... profession a jesuit , and a superior , as indeed he is superior to all his predecessors in devilish treason ; a doctor of jesuits , that is , a doctor of five D. D.'s , as dissimulation , deposing of princes , disposing of king- doms ...
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... profession , a retreat from its labours must have been productive of nothing but irksomeness and disquiet . In the midst of his misfortunes his ancient adversary , Sir Francis Bacon , did not fail to take advantage of so favourable an ...
... profession , a retreat from its labours must have been productive of nothing but irksomeness and disquiet . In the midst of his misfortunes his ancient adversary , Sir Francis Bacon , did not fail to take advantage of so favourable an ...
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... profession . In his reverence for legal principles and legal maxims , he sometimes forgot the higher dictates of reason and good sense . As an antiquarian lawyer , he was not deeply learned , and was surpassed by Selden , and , perhaps ...
... profession . In his reverence for legal principles and legal maxims , he sometimes forgot the higher dictates of reason and good sense . As an antiquarian lawyer , he was not deeply learned , and was surpassed by Selden , and , perhaps ...
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... profession . Having formed an acquaint- ance with Spelman , Cotton , and Camden , he was led at an early period to the study of our national antiquities ; and before he had attained the age of twenty - three , he had compiled a volume ...
... profession . Having formed an acquaint- ance with Spelman , Cotton , and Camden , he was led at an early period to the study of our national antiquities ; and before he had attained the age of twenty - three , he had compiled a volume ...
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... profession , on the ground that the practice of it was not consistent with a strict adherence to truth and justice . According to Burnet , " he gave over the practice of the law , because he could not under- stand the reason of giving ...
... profession , on the ground that the practice of it was not consistent with a strict adherence to truth and justice . According to Burnet , " he gave over the practice of the law , because he could not under- stand the reason of giving ...
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Page 285 - Who is it/ said the jealous ruler over the desert, encroached upon by the restless foot of English adventurers, ( 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 ? Who is it that rears up the shade of those lofty forests, and blasts them with the quick lightning at his pleasure ? The same Being who gave to you a country on the other side of the waters,...
Page 146 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie; Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
Page 31 - Hyde was wont to say that he valued himself upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Selden's acquaintance from the time he was very young, and held it with great delight as long as they were suffered to continue together in London ; and he was...
Page 17 - ... 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 231 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 269 - ... shelter, but I will not join in battle with them. Their vices, though screwed up to the highest pitch of human depravity, are not of dignity enough to vindicate the combat with me. I will drag him to light who is the dark mover behind this scene of iniquity. I assert that the Earl of...
Page 289 - But, at the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes, and the expense of millions, but by contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations ! These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished ; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation ; and...
Page 96 - I'll look after thee. I know thou hast a mighty party, and I see a great many of the brotherhood in corners, waiting to see what will become of their mighty Don, and a Doctor of the party (looking to Dr. Bates) at your elbow; but, by the grace of Almighty God, I'll crush you all.