The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV.Blanchard and Lea, 1851 |
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... continued Steadiness to his Party , and his Principles , 475. Assassination of Mr. Perceval , 476. Erskine defends Lords Grey and Grenville for refusing to take the Government without appointing the Officers of the Household , 476. Lord ...
... continued Steadiness to his Party , and his Principles , 475. Assassination of Mr. Perceval , 476. Erskine defends Lords Grey and Grenville for refusing to take the Government without appointing the Officers of the Household , 476. Lord ...
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... continued without inter- ruption till his death , with Mr. Alexander Wedderburn , now Lord Loughborough . " Wedderburn , in 1748 , was only fifteen ; and as Smith went to Glasgow in 1751 , this enduring friendship must have been settled ...
... continued without inter- ruption till his death , with Mr. Alexander Wedderburn , now Lord Loughborough . " Wedderburn , in 1748 , was only fifteen ; and as Smith went to Glasgow in 1751 , this enduring friendship must have been settled ...
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... continued till near the end of the 18th century . The last of the order was OTHO WEMYSS , whose success did not add to the lustre of the seminary where he was bred , and on whom my friend Mr. John Richardson of Kirklands , in ...
... continued till near the end of the 18th century . The last of the order was OTHO WEMYSS , whose success did not add to the lustre of the seminary where he was bred , and on whom my friend Mr. John Richardson of Kirklands , in ...
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... continued to keep up a friendly correspondence : - “ DEAR DOCTOR , Edinburgh , 6th March , 1753 . " This is delivered to you by my friend Mr. Wedderburn , who makes a jaunt to London , partly with a view to study , partly to ...
... continued to keep up a friendly correspondence : - “ DEAR DOCTOR , Edinburgh , 6th March , 1753 . " This is delivered to you by my friend Mr. Wedderburn , who makes a jaunt to London , partly with a view to study , partly to ...
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... continued regularly and energeti- cally to ply his profession in Scotland , except that each spring he slipped away for a few weeks to London , to eat dinners in the Inner Temple Hall , so that he might still have the [ 1754-1757 ...
... continued regularly and energeti- cally to ply his profession in Scotland , except that each spring he slipped away for a few weeks to London , to eat dinners in the Inner Temple Hall , so that he might still have the [ 1754-1757 ...
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الصفحة 495 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
الصفحة 40 - The wide, th' unbounded prospect, lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in, must be happy.
الصفحة 137 - And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
الصفحة 306 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself.
الصفحة 519 - wife a tin canister tied to our tail " ; And the fair Lady Anne, while the subject he carries on, Seems hurt at his Lordship's degrading comparison : But wherefore degrading ? Considered aright — A canister's polished, and useful, and bright ; And should dirt its original purity hide, That's the fault of the puppy, to whom it is tied.
الصفحة 353 - said the jealous ruler over the desert, encroached upon by the restless foot of English adventure, "who is it that causes this river to rise in the high mountains, and to empty itself into the ocean? Who is it that causes to blow the loud winds of winter, and that calms them again in the summer?
الصفحة 353 - ... no other instructions than to preserve them, and to secure permanently their revenues ; with what colour of consistency or reason can she place herself in the moral chair, and affect to be shocked at the execution of her own orders ; adverting to the exact measure of wickedness and injustice necessary to their execution, and complaining only of the excess as the immorality...
الصفحة 218 - A government in every country should be just like a corporation; and, in this country, it is made up of the landed interest, which alone has a right to be represented ; as for the rabble, who have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them ? What security for the payment of their taxes ? They may pack up all their property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling of an eye, but landed property cannot be removed.
الصفحة 342 - Pleas, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
الصفحة 353 - Asiatic empire. Until this be done, neither religion nor philosophy can be pressed very far into the aid of reformation and punishment. If England, from a lust of ambition and dominion, will insist on maintaining despotic rule over distant and hostile nations, beyond all comparison more numerous and extended than herself, and gives commission to her viceroys to govern them, with no other instructions than to preserve them, and to secure permanently their revenues, —with what colour...