Table Talk of John Selden

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Quaritch, 1927 - 200
 

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Strona 178 - was a person whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue.
Strona 196 - The Selden Society is trying, so far as its scanty financial resources allow it, to have these invaluable sources of information edited and printed, and so put at the service of all who care to know more of our national history than they can know at present. Then, besides the publication of the Year Books, the Selden Society cares for the editing and printing of various other manuscripts dealing with our early legal history and procedure. Amongst these are several volumes of select pleas held in...
Strona 10 - James's time took an excellent way. That Part of the Bible was given to him who was most excellent in such a Tongue (as the Apocrypha to Andrew Downs) and then they met together, and one read the Translation, the rest holding in their Hands some Bible, either of the learned Tongues, or French, Spanish, Italian, &c. If they found any Fault, they spoke; if not, he read on.
Strona 193 - FOUNDED 1887. To ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND ADVANCE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW.
Strona 35 - Some men make it a case of conscience, whether a man may have a pigeon-house, because his pigeons eat other folks corn. But there is no such thing as conscience in the business : the matter is, whether he be a man of such quality, that the state allows him to have a dove-house ; if so, there's an end of the business ; his pigeons have a right to eat where they please themselves.
Strona 40 - ... not in the market-place. They do nothing but what may be done by art; they make the devil fly out of the window in the likeness of a bat, or a rat. Why do they not hold him ? Why, in the likeness of...
Strona 126 - There must be some laymen in the synod, to overlook the clergy, lest they spoil the civil work ; just as when the good woman puts a cat into the milk-house to kill a mouse, she sends her maid to look after the cat, lest the cat should eat up the cream.
Strona 178 - You that have been Ever at home, yet have all countries seen ; And like a compass, keeping one foot still Upon your centre, do your circle fill Of general knowledge; watch'd men, manners too, Heard what times past have said, seen what ours do!
Strona 61 - A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake : just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat ; if every man should buy, or if there were many buyers, they would never agree ; one would buy what the other liked not, or what the other had bought before ; so there would be a confusion. But that charge being committed to one, he, according to his discretion, pleases all ; if they have not what they would have one day, they shall have it the next, or something as...
Strona 195 - Society trying to accomplish them ? Its work is really divided into two main branches. Perhaps the more important and certainly the more urgent of these is the editing and publication of the early English Year Books. This was the especial task which Maitland, supremely conscious of its urgent necessity and importance, set himself during the last few years of his life to do and to provide for getting done. Probably of no other branch of our English and American literature does the average well-informed...

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