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... means afford to waste his sweetness on the desert air . Hence I changed my plan ; left word with my clerk that if any body called I was " gone to the Temple , " and sallied forth on a Paul Pry expedition among all my friends and ...
... means afford to waste his sweetness on the desert air . Hence I changed my plan ; left word with my clerk that if any body called I was " gone to the Temple , " and sallied forth on a Paul Pry expedition among all my friends and ...
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... poor to discharge them , and too proud to acknowledge them ! and , perhaps I should say , too mean to offer that indirect , but satisfactory acquittance which is easily won by the favor able introduction 16 ADVENTURES OF AN ATTORNEY.
... poor to discharge them , and too proud to acknowledge them ! and , perhaps I should say , too mean to offer that indirect , but satisfactory acquittance which is easily won by the favor able introduction 16 ADVENTURES OF AN ATTORNEY.
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... other properties of gold ; but by docil- ity , I mean something between ductility , plia- bility , and capability : whereas clients of the classes I am about to mention have very sel- dom 20 ADVENTURES OF AN ATTORNEY CHAPTER II. ...
... other properties of gold ; but by docil- ity , I mean something between ductility , plia- bility , and capability : whereas clients of the classes I am about to mention have very sel- dom 20 ADVENTURES OF AN ATTORNEY CHAPTER II. ...
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... of himself and his business , did not by any means pre- possess me in favor of my visitor : however , six and eight - pence is worth having , come from what pocket it may , so I declared my 22 ADVENTURES OF AN ATTORNEY.
... of himself and his business , did not by any means pre- possess me in favor of my visitor : however , six and eight - pence is worth having , come from what pocket it may , so I declared my 22 ADVENTURES OF AN ATTORNEY.
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... means recovered her composure , " Pray Mr. Sharpe , if that be your name , why haven't you sent me Mrs. Rudall's bonnet ? " 66 Simply because I have not received it , and have not the honor of knowing such a lady . " " Well , now , that ...
... means recovered her composure , " Pray Mr. Sharpe , if that be your name , why haven't you sent me Mrs. Rudall's bonnet ? " 66 Simply because I have not received it , and have not the honor of knowing such a lady . " " Well , now , that ...
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Page 274 - OF all witnesses in an honest cause, an intelligent child is the best. Of all witnesses, in any cause, a woman is the worst, unless she happens to be very pretty and engaging, and then she will answer the purpose, whatever it be, most successfully. The counsel examining in chief, ogles her with one eye and the jury with the other, while a marked suavity of
Page 225 - beyond the Latin grammar, and too often less than that, simply to qualify him to be a gentleman, whilst his brothers are tinkers and tailors, and his father a Bow-street runner or sheriff's officer. I have digressed a little, however, from my subject. I only wish to explain how it happens, that in a profession which
Page 224 - men, we have improved our social position, and can now enumerate hundreds among us, who are not less gentlemen by birth, by feeling, and by manners, than we are by act of parliament, there still remains too much of that low business which was once the staple of
Page 225 - now justly esteemed a liberal one, and in which we daily meet with men well qualified to adorn any rank of life, we should yet more frequently fall in with others whose manners would exclude them from our servants' hall, and whose characters would compel us to count
Page 223 - in the higher walks of the profession, have in many instances, established for themselves an acknowledged title to rank with the first circles; though I do not say the most fashionable, for I by no means class these among the most worthy, or the most important ; but though by this accession of better born, and therefore generally better educated
Page 311 - Property to an immense amount depended on the legitimacy of an ancestor whose parents were supposed to have been married in the year 1730. The system of registration, either of birth or marriage, was then scarcely known, or at least very imperfectly
Page 244 - cause in Chancery, because we never could reckon with certainty on the attendance of even one! This man was at the Rolls when we wanted him before the Chancellor, and that man was in the vice-Chancellor's court when wanted at the
Page 96 - have reduced, but not superseded the speculative guesses of the attorney: indeed, in one respect, they have added to the difficulty; because, by success on one issue, and failure on another, a debtor and creditor account of costs is established, the balance of which may, by possibility, be against a plaintiff, though he has been