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... witness the following fearful tale , which I find in my note - book of last year . Oh ! for a pen of fire that I might write the story in flaming letters , which would burn it into the memory of every young HINTS ON LAW STUDIES . 9.
... witness the following fearful tale , which I find in my note - book of last year . Oh ! for a pen of fire that I might write the story in flaming letters , which would burn it into the memory of every young HINTS ON LAW STUDIES . 9.
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... witnesses , present at the same time ; and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the Will in the presence of the Testator . " John Biers , while in a very weak state of body , and on his death - bed , made a Will , and sent ...
... witnesses , present at the same time ; and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the Will in the presence of the Testator . " John Biers , while in a very weak state of body , and on his death - bed , made a Will , and sent ...
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... witnesses ? 2nd . Was it sufficient for the neighbour to sign as he did , in the nurse's absence ? 3rd . Was the subscription by the nurse of one half of her signature while the Testator was alive , but unseen by him , and the remainder ...
... witnesses ? 2nd . Was it sufficient for the neighbour to sign as he did , in the nurse's absence ? 3rd . Was the subscription by the nurse of one half of her signature while the Testator was alive , but unseen by him , and the remainder ...
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Page 9 - To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth! And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 9 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture and mean array.
Page 8 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and...
Page 21 - Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the like. For a man may have an estate in them, either to him and his heirs, or for life, or for a term of years, or during pleasure...
Page 8 - God ! mcthiuks it were a happy life, " To be DO better than a homely swain ;" For, of a truth, (quoting Shakspeare's description of a humble rustic — quite applicable to our own times, if, for
Page 12 - Stops on a sudden, looks npon the ground, " Then lays his finger on his temple straight; " Springs out into fast gait; then stops again, " Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts " His eye against the moon : in most strange postures