Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesWilliam Newland Welsby |
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... House of Commons , who seldom want their wills , and , for the most part , with the power of the Crown , obtain them . . ... But it is pleasant to consider that this man's not fearing the Court was accounted valour ; that is , by the ...
... House of Commons , who seldom want their wills , and , for the most part , with the power of the Crown , obtain them . . ... But it is pleasant to consider that this man's not fearing the Court was accounted valour ; that is , by the ...
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... House of Commons prevented it from being ever pro- posed ; and thus was stifled , perhaps , one of the most hopeful of the many schemes which have been framed for that end . Baxter , who evidently wishes to make the judge lean towards ...
... House of Commons prevented it from being ever pro- posed ; and thus was stifled , perhaps , one of the most hopeful of the many schemes which have been framed for that end . Baxter , who evidently wishes to make the judge lean towards ...
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... House of Commons to proceed upon an article whereof they could not make a clear proof . " He proposed accordingly to the committee that this article should be omitted in the proceed- ings ; the majority were of the same opinion , but on ...
... House of Commons to proceed upon an article whereof they could not make a clear proof . " He proposed accordingly to the committee that this article should be omitted in the proceed- ings ; the majority were of the same opinion , but on ...
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... house of Fawley Court , near Henley- upon - Thames , and , in spite of their ... common with Selden and other anti - Presbyterian members , by a stout ... Commons , in affirmance of their divine right , was there nega- tived , by ...
... house of Fawley Court , near Henley- upon - Thames , and , in spite of their ... common with Selden and other anti - Presbyterian members , by a stout ... Commons , in affirmance of their divine right , was there nega- tived , by ...
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... House of Commons . From this time , Whitelocke tells us , Cromwell treated him with more consideration and kindness ... parliament , " was against his going away , and more than formerly desired his company , and began to use his advice ...
... House of Commons . From this time , Whitelocke tells us , Cromwell treated him with more consideration and kindness ... parliament , " was against his going away , and more than formerly desired his company , and began to use his advice ...
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Page 332 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Page 466 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so. crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...
Page 279 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Page 355 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues ,, which made him one of the most amiable as he is one of the most fortunate men of his age, had opened to him in vision that when, in the fourth generation, the third prince ,, of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation which (by the happy issue of moderate and healing...
Page 238 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 355 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall jary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!
Page 355 - ... was to be made Great Britain, he should see his son, Lord Chancellor of England, turn back the current of hereditary dignity to its fountain, and raise him to a higher rank of peerage, whilst he enriched the family with a new one.
Page 354 - It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress.
Page 479 - pray what do you mean by the question?" " Why," replied Garrick, with an affected indifference, yet as if standing on tip-toe, " Lord Camden has this moment left me. We have had a long walk together.
Page 238 - For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little: And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died, fearing God.