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... QUAKER WITNESS . A Quaker coming into the witness box at Guildhall , without a broad brim or dittoes , and rather smartly 1 1 1 dressed , the crier put the book into his hand 466 CURIOSITIES OF LAW AND LAWYERS .
... QUAKER WITNESS . A Quaker coming into the witness box at Guildhall , without a broad brim or dittoes , and rather smartly 1 1 1 dressed , the crier put the book into his hand 466 CURIOSITIES OF LAW AND LAWYERS .
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... Quaker , and being answered in the affirmative , exclaimed , " Do you really mean to impose upon the court by appearing here in the disguise of a reasonable being ? " A WITNESS DEFINING THE SIZE OF A STONE . " 6 At the York Assizes , on ...
... Quaker , and being answered in the affirmative , exclaimed , " Do you really mean to impose upon the court by appearing here in the disguise of a reasonable being ? " A WITNESS DEFINING THE SIZE OF A STONE . " 6 At the York Assizes , on ...
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... QUAKER DEMANDING SATISFACTION FROM COUNSEL . -- When Mr. Henley went the Western circuit he once very roughly ridiculed and browbeat Mr. Reeve , a Quaker merchant of most respectable standing , when the latter was a witness . The Quaker ...
... QUAKER DEMANDING SATISFACTION FROM COUNSEL . -- When Mr. Henley went the Western circuit he once very roughly ridiculed and browbeat Mr. Reeve , a Quaker merchant of most respectable standing , when the latter was a witness . The Quaker ...
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... Quaker friend . THE PROLIXITY OF A SCOTCH COUNSEL . A Scotch counsel , notorious for the length of his addresses and arguments , was one day engaged in a very heavy case , and having to address the jury on the evidence , occupied a long ...
... Quaker friend . THE PROLIXITY OF A SCOTCH COUNSEL . A Scotch counsel , notorious for the length of his addresses and arguments , was one day engaged in a very heavy case , and having to address the jury on the evidence , occupied a long ...
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... QUAKER CLIENT TOO MUCH FOR HIS COUNSEL . 66 A Quaker gentleman of Nantucket called on Daniel Webster at Boston to secure the advocate's services in a suit on the island , and wished to know the terms . The answer was , I will attend to ...
... QUAKER CLIENT TOO MUCH FOR HIS COUNSEL . 66 A Quaker gentleman of Nantucket called on Daniel Webster at Boston to secure the advocate's services in a suit on the island , and wished to know the terms . The answer was , I will attend to ...
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Page 124 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? ' Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!
Page 124 - Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.
Page 124 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no 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!
Page 386 - 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 393 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; — but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right...
Page 124 - If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean. not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! — I repeat it, sir, we must fight!! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us. They tell us, sir, that we are weak —...
Page 108 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be -weak and inconclusive.
Page 698 - Sir Francis Bacon was married yesterday to his young wench in Maribone Chapel. He was clad from top to toe in purple, and hath made himself and his wife such store of fine raiments of cloth of silver and gold that it draws deep into her portion.
Page 111 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Page 142 - 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.