Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic SketchesW. P. Nimmon, 1868 - 154 páginas |
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... Gentleman Thurlow and the Curate , 112 ; and the Regency Question , 39 ; on the Woolsack , 37 ; Quotation Manoeuvre Twofold Illustration of Sir Fletcher Norton Two Sides to the Question Unfortunate Comparison of Lord Kenyon ...
... Gentleman Thurlow and the Curate , 112 ; and the Regency Question , 39 ; on the Woolsack , 37 ; Quotation Manoeuvre Twofold Illustration of Sir Fletcher Norton Two Sides to the Question Unfortunate Comparison of Lord Kenyon ...
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... gentlemen students to be out of their houses after six o'clock at night , 66 without very great and necessary causes , nor to wear any kind of weapon . " And we read of the Earl of Surrey , Thomas Wyatt , and young Pickering , being ...
... gentlemen students to be out of their houses after six o'clock at night , 66 without very great and necessary causes , nor to wear any kind of weapon . " And we read of the Earl of Surrey , Thomas Wyatt , and young Pickering , being ...
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... gentleman if he considered that his son was likely to succeed in special pleading , he replied , " Pray , sir , can your son eat sawdust without butter ? " THE LAST TEMPLE REVEL . IN former times , our Inns of Court were the scenes of ...
... gentleman if he considered that his son was likely to succeed in special pleading , he replied , " Pray , sir , can your son eat sawdust without butter ? " THE LAST TEMPLE REVEL . IN former times , our Inns of Court were the scenes of ...
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... gentlemen , " said Curran , one evening , to a large party , " to give you a sentiment . When a boy , I was one morning playing at marbles in the village of Ball - alley , with a light heart , and lighter pocket . The gibe and the jest ...
... gentlemen , " said Curran , one evening , to a large party , " to give you a sentiment . When a boy , I was one morning playing at marbles in the village of Ball - alley , with a light heart , and lighter pocket . The gibe and the jest ...
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... gentleman seated alone in my drawing - room , his feet familiarly placed on each side of the Italian marble chimney - piece , and his whole air bespeaking the consciousness of one quite at home . He turned round - it was my friend of ...
... gentleman seated alone in my drawing - room , his feet familiarly placed on each side of the Italian marble chimney - piece , and his whole air bespeaking the consciousness of one quite at home . He turned round - it was my friend of ...
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Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches David Laing Purves Vista previa restringida - 2006 |
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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...