 | John Evelyn - 1827 - 458 páginas
...accept the office, considering the uncertainty of things in this fluctuating conjuncture. It is certaine that this Chancellor was a most excellent lawyer,...most in place in this age did, to a more prodigious excesse than was ever known. But the Commons had now so mortified the Court party, and property and... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 páginas
...justice and equity becoming a great judge*.' Evelyn, in his Diary, though he admits that Lord Somers was ' a most excellent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen, and master of a handsome style and easy conversation,' insinuates that, while he was lord chancellor,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...justice and equity becoming a great judgt*.' Evelyn, in his Diary, though he admits that Lord Somers was ' a most excellent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen, and master of a handsome style and easy conversation,' insinuates that, while he was lord chancellor,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 páginas
...justice and equity becoming a great juds;e*.' Evelyn, in his Diary, though he admits that Lord Somers was ' a most excellent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen, and master of a handsome style and easy conversation,' insinuates that, while he was lord chancellor,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 276 páginas
...acquaintance thus afforded him, he was enabled to draw for posterity the following sketch of its President. " It is certain that this chancellor was a most excellent...to a more prodigious excess than was ever known." * With regard to the serious charge which here counterbalances so much commendation, and from a person... | |
 | 1844 - 530 páginas
...orders of society^ s ..V/.< Cupidity and insincerity have also been imputed to him. Evelyn says: " It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent...very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen v master of a handsome style, and of easy conversation; but he is said to make too much haste to be... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 páginas
...been acquitted by a great majority of votes for what was charged against him in the House of Commons. It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent...master of a handsome style, and of easy conversation." Party feeling ran too high to be satisfied with the mere dismissal of Lord Somers from office. On the... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 páginas
...been acquitted by a great majority of votes for what was charged against him in the House of Commons. It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent...master of a handsome style, and of easy conversation." Party feeling ran too high to be satisfied with the mere dismissal of Lord Somers from office. On the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 696 páginas
...refusing to accept the office, considering the uncertainty of things in this fluctuating conjuncture. It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent...most in place in this age did, to a more prodigious excesse than was ever known. But the Commons had now so mortified the Court party, and property and... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 414 páginas
...refusing to accept the office, considering the uncertainty of things in this fluctuating conjuncture. It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent...did, to a more prodigious excess than was ever known. But the Commons had now so mortified the Court-party, and property and liberty were so much invaded... | |
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It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen, master of a handsome style, and of easy conversation; but he is said to make too much haste to be rich, as his predecessor, and most... 
