Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of Queen Victoria, Tom 6

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Strona 74 - It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Strona 343 - Supper, according to the rites of the Church of England...
Strona 209 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Strona 225 - That privilege of Parliament does not extend to the case of writing and publishing seditious libels, nor ought to be allowed to obstruct the ordinary course of laws in the speedy and effectual prosecution of so heinous and dangerous an offence.
Strona 403 - Pray now, did you — did you meet a little lawyer turning the corner, eh ?" " No, sir," said I. " 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." JOHNSON. " Well, sir, Garrick talked very properly. Lord Camden was a little lawyer to be associating so familiarly with a player.
Strona 482 - Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great consideration. 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.
Strona 38 - Oxford and in the country at the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century.
Strona 241 - Romilly, and was called to the bar by the Society of the Inner Temple, May 6, 1796.
Strona 481 - I want to know you, Mr. Sterne; but it is fit you should know, also, who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard, continued he, of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much: I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast; but have survived them; and, despairing ever to find their equals, it is some years since I have...
Strona 322 - 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...

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