A Book about Lawyers, المجلد 2Hurst and Blackett, 1867 - 432 من الصفحات |
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... Chancellor or the whims of a clique . At present the sovereign's counsel learned in the law con- stitute a distinct order of the profession ; but until the reign of William IV . they were merely a handful of court favourites . In most ...
... Chancellor or the whims of a clique . At present the sovereign's counsel learned in the law con- stitute a distinct order of the profession ; but until the reign of William IV . they were merely a handful of court favourites . In most ...
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... Chancellor could not control his hatred for the men who had been true to their client and to Whig principles . " No young lady , " wrote the Chancellor , in a letter which is a curious illustration of Eldon's constitutional good temper ...
... Chancellor could not control his hatred for the men who had been true to their client and to Whig principles . " No young lady , " wrote the Chancellor , in a letter which is a curious illustration of Eldon's constitutional good temper ...
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... Chancellor , " whatever king might reign , " was in private com- munication with the prince's friends . With furtive steps he passed from the queen's room ( where he had a minute before been assuring the ministers that he would be ...
... Chancellor , " whatever king might reign , " was in private com- munication with the prince's friends . With furtive steps he passed from the queen's room ( where he had a minute before been assuring the ministers that he would be ...
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... Chancellor's deceit , the other members of the cabinet suspected that he was acting disingenuously , and when his double - dealing was brought to their sure knowledge , their indignation was not even qualified with surprise . The story ...
... Chancellor's deceit , the other members of the cabinet suspected that he was acting disingenuously , and when his double - dealing was brought to their sure knowledge , their indignation was not even qualified with surprise . The story ...
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... Chancellor's aspect , Fox observed - " It proved him dis- honest , since no man could be so wise as Thurlow looked . " That this Chancellor with a sapient face used to wear his three - cocked hat in court , O'Keefe , the farce - writer ...
... Chancellor's aspect , Fox observed - " It proved him dis- honest , since no man could be so wise as Thurlow looked . " That this Chancellor with a sapient face used to wear his three - cocked hat in court , O'Keefe , the farce - writer ...
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الصفحة 123 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do, — but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more,— I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right...
الصفحة 100 - It is a nest of wasps, or swarm of vermin which have overcrept the land. I mean the Monopolies and Pollers of the people : these, like the Frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup.
الصفحة 65 - At our feast, wee had a play called Twelve Night, or What you Will. Much like the Comedy of Errors, or Menechmi in Plautus ; but most like and neere to that in Italian called Inganni.
الصفحة 122 - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as...
الصفحة 291 - With us the nobility, gentry, and students, do ordinarily go to dinner at eleven before noon, and to supper at five, or between five and six at afternoon. The merchants dine and sup seldom before twelve at noon and six at night, especially in London. The husbandmen dine also at high noon as they call it, and sup at seven or eight : but out of term in our universities the scholars dine at ten.
الصفحة 139 - He had nothing of rigid or austere in him. If any near him at the bar grumbled at his stench, he ever converted the complaint into content and laughing with the abundance of his wit.
الصفحة 209 - Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out ; for it will do you more hurt than all the teeth in your head will do you good.
الصفحة 138 - And thus, by degrees, he pushed his Faculties, and fell to Forms, and, by Books that were lent him, became an exquisite entering Clerk; and, by the same course of Improvement of himself, an able Counsel, first in special Pleading, then, at large.
الصفحة 322 - Strife and wrangling have made him rich, and he is thankful to his benefactor, and nourishes it. If he live in a country village, he makes all his neighbours good subjects; for there shall be nothing done but what there is law for. His business gives him not leave to think of his conscience, and when the time, or term...