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... speak ? for he playeth the orator , and abuseth our ears and us with slanders ; but they are but fashions of orators in corrupt states . " But it was during the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh , which took place three years subsequently to ...
... speak ? for he playeth the orator , and abuseth our ears and us with slanders ; but they are but fashions of orators in corrupt states . " But it was during the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh , which took place three years subsequently to ...
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... speak . " On this rebuke Coke sat down in anger , and was with difficulty persuaded to proceed . When , at length , he resumed , he burst forth into a fresh torrent of invective , accusing Raleigh , not only of the darkest treasons ...
... speak . " On this rebuke Coke sat down in anger , and was with difficulty persuaded to proceed . When , at length , he resumed , he burst forth into a fresh torrent of invective , accusing Raleigh , not only of the darkest treasons ...
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... speak of your own greatness , the more I will 6 think of it . ' " He replied , I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards you , who are less than little , less than the least ; and other such strange light terms he gave me ...
... speak of your own greatness , the more I will 6 think of it . ' " He replied , I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards you , who are less than little , less than the least ; and other such strange light terms he gave me ...
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... speak too much , not to hear other men : this , some say , becomes a pleader , not a judge ; for by this sometimes your affections are entangled with a love of your own arguments , though they be the weaker , and rejecting of those ...
... speak too much , not to hear other men : this , some say , becomes a pleader , not a judge ; for by this sometimes your affections are entangled with a love of your own arguments , though they be the weaker , and rejecting of those ...
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... speak , you should know many of the tales you tell to be but ordinary ; and many other things which you delight to repeat and serve in for novelties , to be but stale . As in your pleadings you were wont to insult over misery , and to ...
... speak , you should know many of the tales you tell to be but ordinary ; and many other things which you delight to repeat and serve in for novelties , to be but stale . As in your pleadings you were wont to insult over misery , and to ...
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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.