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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... 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 entertainment . I thought I could not do him a better office ...
... 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 entertainment . I thought I could not do him a better office ...
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... dear Doctor , your affectionate friend and servant , " D. HUME . " It was the end of March before Wedderburn reached London , and the circuits going on , he was disappointed in finding neither the courts of law nor the Court of Chancery ...
... dear Doctor , your affectionate friend and servant , " D. HUME . " It was the end of March before Wedderburn reached London , and the circuits going on , he was disappointed in finding neither the courts of law nor the Court of Chancery ...
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... DEAR MAMMA , " Lincoln's Inn , Feby . 18th , 1763. * " You will not be sorry to hear that I have kissed his Majesty's hand for a preferment which the newspapers had bestowed upon me long ago . It is an honour which may be of ...
... DEAR MAMMA , " Lincoln's Inn , Feby . 18th , 1763. * " You will not be sorry to hear that I have kissed his Majesty's hand for a preferment which the newspapers had bestowed upon me long ago . It is an honour which may be of ...
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... DEAR SIR , " I believe I shall write you a very short letter , and yet have a great deal to say . I have not absolutely leisure to look about me : what beween business and company , what between receiving and returning civilities ...
... DEAR SIR , " I believe I shall write you a very short letter , and yet have a great deal to say . I have not absolutely leisure to look about me : what beween business and company , what between receiving and returning civilities ...
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... dear Wedderburn , “ Your's sincerely , " Paris , 23d Nov. 1763 . " DAVID HUME . " P. S. I daily reconcile myself more to this place , and expect soon to be a Parisian . I have so often changed my places of abode , that I am come to ...
... dear Wedderburn , “ Your's sincerely , " Paris , 23d Nov. 1763 . " DAVID HUME . " P. S. I daily reconcile myself more to this place , and expect soon to be a Parisian . I have so often changed my places of abode , that I am come to ...
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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...