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... king , James I. , who soon after his accession to the English throne would needs be present in court while a notable cause was pleading . Those on the plaintiff's side having finished what they had to say , it proved so much to the king's ...
... king , James I. , who soon after his accession to the English throne would needs be present in court while a notable cause was pleading . Those on the plaintiff's side having finished what they had to say , it proved so much to the king's ...
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... King and his court were obliged to seek protection in Kenil- worth Castle , London opening its gates to the insurgents . The Chancellor took the chief management of affairs , and the rebels having received a repulse , he succeeded in ...
... King and his court were obliged to seek protection in Kenil- worth Castle , London opening its gates to the insurgents . The Chancellor took the chief management of affairs , and the rebels having received a repulse , he succeeded in ...
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... king , judge , and lawgiver ; and a poor old woman had often tried in vain to get him to listen to the story of her wrongs . The king at last abruptly told her " he was not at leisure to hear her . " " No ! " she exclaimed , " then you ...
... king , judge , and lawgiver ; and a poor old woman had often tried in vain to get him to listen to the story of her wrongs . The king at last abruptly told her " he was not at leisure to hear her . " " No ! " she exclaimed , " then you ...
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... king . All the judges except Croke and Hutton were for the king . " A JUDGE WHO WAS " THE COMMON FRIEND . " Mr. Beaumont Hotham was appointed a judge , being thought by his contemporaries not very fit for that office , and yet he ...
... king . All the judges except Croke and Hutton were for the king . " A JUDGE WHO WAS " THE COMMON FRIEND . " Mr. Beaumont Hotham was appointed a judge , being thought by his contemporaries not very fit for that office , and yet he ...
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... King , and was banished for life out of the kingdom . Sir . A. de Stratton , Chief Baron of the Exchequer , was fined 34,000 marks . Sir R. de Hengham , Chief Justice of the King's Bench , was let off with a fine of 7,000 marks , for ...
... King , and was banished for life out of the kingdom . Sir . A. de Stratton , Chief Baron of the Exchequer , was fined 34,000 marks . Sir R. de Hengham , Chief Justice of the King's Bench , was let off with a fine of 7,000 marks , for ...
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Page 181 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 126 - election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Page 126 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending...
Page 126 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Page 110 - ... supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive. But, Sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself, may convince the Judge to whom you urge it: and if it does convince him, why then, Sir, you are wrong, and he is right.
Page 388 - Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages, that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls ; The seals and maces danc'd before him.
Page 119 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Page 505 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Page 395 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, — not I the peerage.
Page 144 - And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.