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... soon found himself at sea with my successor . Had I at this time made a bargain with him , he felt his case so beset with difficulties , and so likely to survive , if not to murder him , for he was then seventy - two , that he would ...
... soon found himself at sea with my successor . Had I at this time made a bargain with him , he felt his case so beset with difficulties , and so likely to survive , if not to murder him , for he was then seventy - two , that he would ...
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... soon she found one to her heart's content ; but character was required , and her former mistress being piqued at her abrupt departure , declared her to be all that was excellent , but nodded her head , and added that she was " unsteady ...
... soon she found one to her heart's content ; but character was required , and her former mistress being piqued at her abrupt departure , declared her to be all that was excellent , but nodded her head , and added that she was " unsteady ...
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... soon , " and so saying , she directly turned back , assuring " Laura " that the carri- age must have gone the other way . I pursued my own ; and never have seen her since , though I hear she is again in the same quagmire in which I ...
... soon , " and so saying , she directly turned back , assuring " Laura " that the carri- age must have gone the other way . I pursued my own ; and never have seen her since , though I hear she is again in the same quagmire in which I ...
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... soon had the mystery explained by my friend Miss Gordon . Mr. and Mrs. Walsing- ham had been separated by deed , for fifteen years , and the union of Sir William and Lady Carysfort was generally understood to be one , though they were ...
... soon had the mystery explained by my friend Miss Gordon . Mr. and Mrs. Walsing- ham had been separated by deed , for fifteen years , and the union of Sir William and Lady Carysfort was generally understood to be one , though they were ...
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... soon can you start ? " " In an hour if you wish it . " " Very well ; you will receive your further in- structions from the Attorney - General , and you will write to us by every post . Good morning , Mr. Sharpe , " and I was bowed out ...
... soon can you start ? " " In an hour if you wish it . " " Very well ; you will receive your further in- structions from the Attorney - General , and you will write to us by every post . Good morning , Mr. Sharpe , " and I was bowed out ...
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Page 398 - You may as well spread out the unsunned heaps Of miser's treasure by an outlaw's den, And tell me it is safe, as bid me hope Danger will wink on opportunity, And let a single helpless maiden pass Uninjured in this wild surrounding
Page 105 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."—MEASURE
Page 274 - OF all witnesses in an honest cause, an intelligent child is the best. Of all witnesses, in any cause, a woman is the worst, unless she happens to be very pretty and engaging, and then she will answer the purpose, whatever it be, most successfully. The counsel examining in chief, ogles her with one eye and the jury with the other, while a marked suavity of
Page 225 - beyond the Latin grammar, and too often less than that, simply to qualify him to be a gentleman, whilst his brothers are tinkers and tailors, and his father a Bow-street runner or sheriff's officer. I have digressed a little, however, from my subject. I only wish to explain how it happens, that in a profession which
Page 224 - men, we have improved our social position, and can now enumerate hundreds among us, who are not less gentlemen by birth, by feeling, and by manners, than we are by act of parliament, there still remains too much of that low business which was once the staple of
Page 225 - now justly esteemed a liberal one, and in which we daily meet with men well qualified to adorn any rank of life, we should yet more frequently fall in with others whose manners would exclude them from our servants' hall, and whose characters would compel us to count
Page 223 - in the higher walks of the profession, have in many instances, established for themselves an acknowledged title to rank with the first circles; though I do not say the most fashionable, for I by no means class these among the most worthy, or the most important ; but though by this accession of better born, and therefore generally better educated
Page 311 - Property to an immense amount depended on the legitimacy of an ancestor whose parents were supposed to have been married in the year 1730. The system of registration, either of birth or marriage, was then scarcely known, or at least very imperfectly
Page 244 - cause in Chancery, because we never could reckon with certainty on the attendance of even one! This man was at the Rolls when we wanted him before the Chancellor, and that man was in the vice-Chancellor's court when wanted at the
Page 96 - have reduced, but not superseded the speculative guesses of the attorney: indeed, in one respect, they have added to the difficulty; because, by success on one issue, and failure on another, a debtor and creditor account of costs is established, the balance of which may, by possibility, be against a plaintiff, though he has been