Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic SketchesW. P. Nimmon, 1868 - 154 páginas |
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... soon discharged . " A MERE NOVELTY . " SIR WILLIAM SCOTT ( Lord Stowell ) was the enemy of every change ; and careless , and even distrustful of all improvement . As he could imagine nothing better than the existing state of any given ...
... soon discharged . " A MERE NOVELTY . " SIR WILLIAM SCOTT ( Lord Stowell ) was the enemy of every change ; and careless , and even distrustful of all improvement . As he could imagine nothing better than the existing state of any given ...
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... soon as the ceremony of walking round the coal - fire was over . This dance , by the way , is satirized in the old play of The Rehearsal ; and the Revels have been ridiculed by Dr. Donne in his Satires , Prior in his Alma , and Pope in ...
... soon as the ceremony of walking round the coal - fire was over . This dance , by the way , is satirized in the old play of The Rehearsal ; and the Revels have been ridiculed by Dr. Donne in his Satires , Prior in his Alma , and Pope in ...
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... Soon after , the royal mother came , accompanied by Lady Charlotte Lyndsay , her lady - in - waiting . It was found that the Princess Charlotte's fixed resolution was to leave her father's house , and that which he had appointed for her ...
... Soon after , the royal mother came , accompanied by Lady Charlotte Lyndsay , her lady - in - waiting . It was found that the Princess Charlotte's fixed resolution was to leave her father's house , and that which he had appointed for her ...
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... soon as the flight of the young lady was ascertained , and the place of her retreat discovered , the Regent's officers of state and other functionaries were dispatched after her . The Lord Chancellor Eldon first arrived , but not in any ...
... soon as the flight of the young lady was ascertained , and the place of her retreat discovered , the Regent's officers of state and other functionaries were dispatched after her . The Lord Chancellor Eldon first arrived , but not in any ...
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... soon as the convenience of government , in regard to the due selection and appointment of my successor , may allow . ' This purpose of resignation Lord Ellenborough had carried into effect about three FATE OF EMPSON AND DUDLEY . 61 ...
... soon as the convenience of government , in regard to the due selection and appointment of my successor , may allow . ' This purpose of resignation Lord Ellenborough had carried into effect about three FATE OF EMPSON AND DUDLEY . 61 ...
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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...