 The Judges when they have taken their refreshments spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading of the Holy Scriptures, and other innocent amusements, at their pleasure : it seems rather a life of contemplation than of much action : their...  The Order of the Coif - Page 102by Alexander Pulling - 1897 - 297 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir John Fortescue, Andrew Amos - Constitutional law - 1825 - 304 pages
...other their counsel, about their affairs. The Judges when they have taken their refreshments spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading...is spent in this manner, free from care and worldly avocations. Nor was it ever found that any of them has been corrupted with gifts, or bribes. And it... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Law - 1825 - 332 pages
...study of the Laws, reading the Holy Scriptures, and other innocent amusements at their pleasure. Jt seems rather a life of contemplation than of much...is spent in this manner, free from care and worldly avocations." (De Laudibus, be. c. 51.) The Lord Chancellor's place, however, was by no means so easy... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...that when they had taken their refreshments, they spent the rest of the day in the study of the law, reading of the holy Scriptures, and other innocent amusements at their pleasure ; so : that it seemed rather a life of contemplation than of much action; and that their time was spent... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - Law reform - 1828 - 126 pages
...courts are not open in the afternoon. The judges when they have taken their refreshments spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading...•rather a life of contemplation, than of much action*!" That it is now rather too much a life .of action and no contemplation is perhaps to be feared. If such... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 528 pages
...their counsel, about their affairs ; the judges, when they have taken their refreshments, spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading...pleasure.' " It seems rather a life of contemplation than much exertion, and yet at this early period there were usually in the Court of Common Pleas five judges,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 564 pages
...courts are not open in the afternoon. The judges, when they have taken their refreshments, spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading...rather a life of contemplation than of much action.' To one court, and one only, can this interesting picture of judicial vacation now in any degree apply;... | |
 | 1830 - 562 pages
...courts are not open in the afternoon. The judges, when they have taken their refreshments, spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading...— it seems rather a life of contemplation than of mucti action.' To one court, and one only, can this interesting picture of judicial vacation now in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 574 pages
...courts are not open in • the afternoon. The judges, when they have taken their refreshments, spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading...other innocent amusements at their pleasure — it feems rather a life of contemplation than of much action.' To one court, and one only, can this interesting... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 496 pages
...other their counsel about their affairs. The judges, when they have taken their refreshments, spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading...is spent in this manner, free from care and worldly avocations. Nor was it ever found that any of them had been corrupted with gifts or bribes."^ ' ' '... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...that, when they had taken their refreshments, they spent the rest of the day in the study of the law, reading of the Holy Scriptures, and other innocent amusements, at their pleasure ; so that it seemed rather a life of contemplation than of much action ; and that their time was spent... | |
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