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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... seems to be in possession of the Great Seal , 181. And is again disappointed , 181. King's Recovery and unbounded Popu- larity and Power , 181. Lord Loughborough's continuing Intimacy with the Prince of Wales , 182. Letter from the ...
... seems to be in possession of the Great Seal , 181. And is again disappointed , 181. King's Recovery and unbounded Popu- larity and Power , 181. Lord Loughborough's continuing Intimacy with the Prince of Wales , 182. Letter from the ...
الصفحة 33
... seems to have been actuated exclusively by a view to his own aggrandisement , -careless about any improvement of the laws and constitution , -contented with the present possession of high office , -and reckless of his reputation with ...
... seems to have been actuated exclusively by a view to his own aggrandisement , -careless about any improvement of the laws and constitution , -contented with the present possession of high office , -and reckless of his reputation with ...
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... seems early to have excited a very considerable sensation in his own country , I can find no trace of his eloquence in the Court of Session till the very close of his career there ; † and my southern readers * To understand this ...
... seems early to have excited a very considerable sensation in his own country , I can find no trace of his eloquence in the Court of Session till the very close of his career there ; † and my southern readers * To understand this ...
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... seems to me to be a very promis- ing specimen of his powers , and it may raise regret that he afterwards abandoned authorship in quest of fame more fleeting , if more flattering : " The design of this work is to lay before the public ...
... seems to me to be a very promis- ing specimen of his powers , and it may raise regret that he afterwards abandoned authorship in quest of fame more fleeting , if more flattering : " The design of this work is to lay before the public ...
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... seem to have any peculiar title to public attention . " These are the motives and the plan of the present undertaking : the execution of it the public must judge of . Those who are concerned in carrying it on , hope , if the public ...
... seem to have any peculiar title to public attention . " These are the motives and the plan of the present undertaking : the execution of it the public must judge of . Those who are concerned in carrying it on , hope , if the public ...
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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...