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R. Phillips, 1800 - 10 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 11 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out.
الصفحة 7 - ... the one party, than it was condoled in the other. In a word, what was said of Cinna might well be applied to him ; " he had a head to contrive, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.
الصفحة 14 - He was obliged to relinquish Normandy, Anjou, Poitou, Touraine, and Maine to the king of France; after which a civil war broke out in England, and the king was taken prisoner by the barons, at the head of whom was Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester.
الصفحة 11 - Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased: and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him; but the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible.
الصفحة 7 - Mastix ; or, an Anti-Caveat to all such as have had the misfortune to be cheated and deluded by that great and treacherous impostor, John Booker." This was a mere libel, but Wharton was also a writer of political
الصفحة 10 - ANTHONY, an able and learned judge in the reign of Henry VIII., was b. at Norburv, in Derbyshire, and educated at Oxford, from whence he removed to one of the inns of court. In 1523 he was made a judge in the court of common pleas, and d. in 1538. He wrote "The Grand Abridgment...
الصفحة 6 - Nov. 1672; whereupon his ingenious comrades did serenade him that night, while he was in the embraces of his mistress, with the said song.
الصفحة 9 - MA, in 1739, and obtained a fellowship, he entered as a student at Lincoln's inn, and, in due time, was called to the bar. In 1754, he was chosen member of parliament for the borough of Downton. After acquiring great reputation as an advocate, he was, in 1759, appointed attorney-general, having, the same year, been elected recorder of the city of Bath.

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