The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 5Bickers and Son, 1903 |
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Page 77 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze!
Page 155 - Coke in his commentary upon this statute says, that these words, " by the law of the land," mean " by the due course and process of law;" which he afterwards explains to be, "by indictment or presentment of good and lawful men, where such deeds be done in due manner, or by writ original of the common law:" 2 Inst. 45, 50. In North Carolina and Tennessee, where they have copied almost literally this part of the twenty-ninth chapter of Magna Charta, the terms "law of the land" have received the same...
Page 110 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 195 - Lincoln's-inn-fields, upon some business of importance ; but I excused myself from complying with the message, as, besides being lame, I was very ill with the great fatigues I had lately undergone, added to my distemper. His grace, however, sent Mr. Carrington, the very next morning, with another summons ; with which, though in the utmost distress, I immediately complied ; but the duke happening, unfortunately for me, to be then particularly engaged, after I had waited some time, sent a gentleman...
Page 365 - No person whatever, by himself, factor, deputy, servant, or other person, shall, for gain, keep, &c., any common, house, alley, or place of bowling, coyting, clash-coyls, half-bowl, tennis, dicing-table, or carding, or any other manner of game, prohibited by any statute heretofore made, or any unlawful game invented or made, or any other new unlawful game hereafter to be invented or made ; the penalty is 40?.
Page 411 - Be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that wherever any person taketh money or reward, directly or indirectly, under pretence or upon account of helping any person...
Page 386 - Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work ; and also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work...
Page 11 - Knave. — The name of four cards in every pack. Knowledge. — In general, means knowledge of the town ; as this is, indeed, the only kind of knowledge ever spoken of in the polite world. Learning. — Pedantry. Love. — A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food ; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favourite objects of all our appetites.
Page 196 - I was enabled to pay a fellow who had undertaken, for a small sum, to betray them into the hands of a set of thief-takers whom I had enlisted into the service, all men of known and approved fidelity and intrepidity.
Page 387 - ... and if such person, being so required, refuse to become an apprentice, one justice of peace may compel him, or commit him to prison, there to remain till he will be bound.