The Metropolitan, Volume 1James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
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Page 80
... Sir R. Vyvian and Mr. Hart Davis having had no other word since upon their lips but " Prodigious ! " At length Parliament has been dissolved . The appeal to ... LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVEE . UNFEIGNED respect for , and 80 The Political Times .
... Sir R. Vyvian and Mr. Hart Davis having had no other word since upon their lips but " Prodigious ! " At length Parliament has been dissolved . The appeal to ... LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVEE . UNFEIGNED respect for , and 80 The Political Times .
Page 81
THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVEE . UNFEIGNED respect for , and a slight personal acquaintance with , the noble person who now holds the Seals , led me to attend his last levee . This could not be done without some ... LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVEE. ...
THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVEE . UNFEIGNED respect for , and a slight personal acquaintance with , the noble person who now holds the Seals , led me to attend his last levee . This could not be done without some ... LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVEE. ...
Page 82
... chancellor of old , had the fancy to be covered when the suppliants approached . Let any one observe with what studied dignity he performs the duty of announcing the royal assent to Acts of Parliament ; he ... Lord Chancellor's Levee .
... chancellor of old , had the fancy to be covered when the suppliants approached . Let any one observe with what studied dignity he performs the duty of announcing the royal assent to Acts of Parliament ; he ... Lord Chancellor's Levee .
Page 83
... Chancellor and offered his respects . The numbers were so great that it was impossible to devote any marked attention to each ; as soon therefore as the visitor had made his bow he retired into the throng ... Lord Chancellor's Levee . 83.
... Chancellor and offered his respects . The numbers were so great that it was impossible to devote any marked attention to each ; as soon therefore as the visitor had made his bow he retired into the throng ... Lord Chancellor's Levee . 83.
Page 84
... lord- Carnarvon by name . There is nothing very courtly or dignified in the appearance of this nobleman . He has been a whig the greater part of his life ; but affects to be ... Chancellor gave no discourage- 84 The Lord Chancellor's Levee .
... lord- Carnarvon by name . There is nothing very courtly or dignified in the appearance of this nobleman . He has been a whig the greater part of his life ; but affects to be ... Chancellor gave no discourage- 84 The Lord Chancellor's Levee .
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Page 194 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 196 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 203 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, Which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the fie'ld: The wild asses quench their thirst.
Page 195 - Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped P 3 down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come : and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 196 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 201 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 202 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 192 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 200 - Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.
Page 203 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.