Learned in the Law: Or, Examples and Encouragements from the Lives of Eminent LawyersS.W. Partridge & Company, 1882 - 392 páginas |
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... presents , fees , " benevolences " -or to use a plainer word - bribes , which they received . from the suitors of the court . Such a system was obviously open to abuse ; but Bacon , a profuse man , with no apparent power of regulating ...
... presents , fees , " benevolences " -or to use a plainer word - bribes , which they received . from the suitors of the court . Such a system was obviously open to abuse ; but Bacon , a profuse man , with no apparent power of regulating ...
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... present establishment . That when he went to Oxford he had taken the oaths to the Government , and had done so seriously and sincerely . That when he pleaded at the bar of the Commons , it was with entire fidelity to the principles by ...
... present establishment . That when he went to Oxford he had taken the oaths to the Government , and had done so seriously and sincerely . That when he pleaded at the bar of the Commons , it was with entire fidelity to the principles by ...
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... present prosecution . is not in our power to stop it ; it was not in our power to bring It it on . We cannot pardon . We are to say what we take the law to be ; if we do not speak our real opinions , we prevaricate with God and our own ...
... present prosecution . is not in our power to stop it ; it was not in our power to bring It it on . We cannot pardon . We are to say what we take the law to be ; if we do not speak our real opinions , we prevaricate with God and our own ...
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LORD BACON 15611626 | 16 |
JOHN SELDEN 15841654 | 75 |
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