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... eloquence , which sometimes rapidly forces up an impudent pretender , but you are sure to get early into respectable business at the bar , and you may count on becoming in due time a puisne judge . " Acting on this encouraging advice ...
... eloquence , which sometimes rapidly forces up an impudent pretender , but you are sure to get early into respectable business at the bar , and you may count on becoming in due time a puisne judge . " Acting on this encouraging advice ...
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... eloquence , and grace * Proclaim him born to sway The balance in the highest place , And bear the palm away ! ' " The praise bestowed was just and wise ; He sprung impetuous forth , Secure of conquest , where the prize Attends superior ...
... eloquence , and grace * Proclaim him born to sway The balance in the highest place , And bear the palm away ! ' " The praise bestowed was just and wise ; He sprung impetuous forth , Secure of conquest , where the prize Attends superior ...
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... joined the circuit at York , and , by his eloquence and knowledge , almost immediately leapt into reputation . In 1787 he obtained the silk gown of a K.C. , and in the same year made a start for the highest prize INTRODUCTION . 13.
... joined the circuit at York , and , by his eloquence and knowledge , almost immediately leapt into reputation . In 1787 he obtained the silk gown of a K.C. , and in the same year made a start for the highest prize INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... eloquence of the managers of the impeachment , Fox and Sheridan , Burke and Windham , and proved himself not unworthy of crossing swords with those notable adversaries . The following sketches of the lives of great lawyers all point the ...
... eloquence of the managers of the impeachment , Fox and Sheridan , Burke and Windham , and proved himself not unworthy of crossing swords with those notable adversaries . The following sketches of the lives of great lawyers all point the ...
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... eloquence that Elizabeth , in order to secure the benefit of his advice , created for him the office of Counsel Extraor- dinary . But it was fame and social consideration , rather than any substantial position or solid advantage , the ...
... eloquence that Elizabeth , in order to secure the benefit of his advice , created for him the office of Counsel Extraor- dinary . But it was fame and social consideration , rather than any substantial position or solid advantage , the ...
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Página 219 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 205 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Página 100 - It was moved that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.
Página 15 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Página 198 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant?
Página 197 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable as he is one of the most fortunate men of his age, had opened to him in vision that when, in the fourth generation, the third prince of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation which (by the happy issue of moderate and healing...
Página 24 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 127 - To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death.
Página 219 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 198 - What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons?