Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic SketchesW. P. Nimmon, 1868 - 154 páginas |
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... gave birth to the twins , William and Barbara . Lord Stowell having been thus born in the county of Durham , was eligible for a scholarship , which fell vacant for that diocese , in Corpus Christi College , Oxford : this he succeeded in ...
... gave birth to the twins , William and Barbara . Lord Stowell having been thus born in the county of Durham , was eligible for a scholarship , which fell vacant for that diocese , in Corpus Christi College , Oxford : this he succeeded in ...
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... gave her a sixpence , telling her that he forgot to give it her when he slept there two years before . I was a very saucy boy , and said to him , ' Friend , have you seen the motto on this coach ? ' ' No. ' ' Then look at it : for I ...
... gave her a sixpence , telling her that he forgot to give it her when he slept there two years before . I was a very saucy boy , and said to him , ' Friend , have you seen the motto on this coach ? ' ' No. ' ' Then look at it : for I ...
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... gave the girl who waited a penny a piece ; but Kenyon , who always knew the value of money , sometimes rewarded her with a half- penny , and sometimes with a promise . " LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S POWER OF SARCASM . LORD ELLENBOROUGH had no ...
... gave the girl who waited a penny a piece ; but Kenyon , who always knew the value of money , sometimes rewarded her with a half- penny , and sometimes with a promise . " LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S POWER OF SARCASM . LORD ELLENBOROUGH had no ...
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... gave rise to high words , put his hand to his heart , and declared that he was the trusty guardian of his own honour : upon which Sir Boyle Roche congratulated his honourable friend on the snug little sinecure he had discovered for ...
... gave rise to high words , put his hand to his heart , and declared that he was the trusty guardian of his own honour : upon which Sir Boyle Roche congratulated his honourable friend on the snug little sinecure he had discovered for ...
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... gave me all I have - my friend - my benefactor ! ' He dined with me ; and in the evening I caught the tear glistening in his fine blue eye , when he saw poor little Jack , the creature of his bounty , rising in the House of Commons to ...
... gave me all I have - my friend - my benefactor ! ' He dined with me ; and in the evening I caught the tear glistening in his fine blue eye , when he saw poor little Jack , the creature of his bounty , rising in the House of Commons to ...
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Página 149 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 80 - I find His Grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this Realm; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Página 38 - He rose slowly from his seat : he left the woolsack with deliberation ; but he went not to the nearest place, like ordinary Chancellors, the sons of mortal men ; he drew back by a pace or two, and, standing as it were askance, and partly behind the huge bale he had quitted for a season, he began to pour out, first in a growl, and then in a clear and louder roll, the matter which he had to deliver, and which for the most part consisted in some positive assertions, some personal vituperation, some...
Página 125 - I am worn to death ; here have we been, sitting on in the vacation, from nine in the morning until four, and when we leave this place I have to read through all my papers to be ready for to-morrow morning; but the most extraordinary part of all is, that Eldon, who has not only mine, but all the other business to go through, is just as cheerful and untired as ever.
Página 85 - Both these might be performed by deputy; but the principal was to answer for the success of the trial, the deputy only venturing some corporal pain for hire, or perhaps for friendship.
Página 26 - Page, who, joined to the other judges, Serjeants, and benchers present, danced, or rather walked, round about the coal fire, according to the old ceremony, three times, during which they were aided in the figure of the dance by Mr. George Cooke, the prothonotary, then...