 ... solemnity which so properly accompanies such a public administration of our laws ; when, after about an hour's sitting, I observed, to my great surprise, in the midst of a trial, that my friend Sir Roger was getting up to speak. I was in some pain...  Sir Roger de Coverley and the Spectator's Club - Page 133by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1729 - 342 pages
...Country-People that Sir ROGER was up. The Speech he made was fo little to the Purpofe, that I fhall not trouble my Readers with an Account of it ; and I believe was not no fo much defigned by the Knight himfelf to inform the Court, as to give him a Figure in my Eye, and... | |
 | English essays - 1739 - 346 pages
...Bufmefs and great •Intrepidity. • UPON his firft Rifing the Court was huflied, and a general Whifper ran among the Country People that Sir ROGER 'was up. The Speech he mf.de was fo little to the Purpofe, that I mail not trouble my Readers with an Account of it ; and... | |
 | 1786 - 694 pages
...country people that Sir Roger ' was up.' The fpcech he made was fo little to the purpole, that I mall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not fo much deiigned by the knight himlelf to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...that my friend Sir Roger was getting up to speak. I was in some pain for him, until I found he had acquitted himself of two or three sentences, with...trouble my readers with an account of it ; and I believe \va< not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...that my friend Sir Roger was getting up to speak. I was. in some pain for him, until I found he had acquitted himself of two or three sentences, with...little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my rea-. ders with an account of it ; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...that my friend Sir Roger was getting up to speak. I was in some pain for him, until I found he had acquitted himself of two or three sentences, with...up.' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, tiiat I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...trial, that my friend Sir Roger was getting up to speak. I was in some pain for him, till I found he had acquitted himself of two or three sentences, with...great intrepidity. Upon his first rising the court was hashed, and a general whisper ran among the country people that Sir Roger was up. The speech he made... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...that my friend Sir Rodger was getting up to speak. I was in some pain for him, until I found he had 822 bis first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, 'i>t Sir... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...trial, that my friend Sir Roger was getting up to speak. I was in some pain for him, till I found he had acquitted himself of two or three sentences, with...readers with an account of it; and I believe was not BO much designed by the knight himself to inform the Court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 pages
...trial, that my friend Sir Roger was gettingup to speak. I was in some pain for him, until I found he had acquitted himself of two or three sentences, with...speech he made was so little to the purpose, that 1 shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the... | |
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