Lives of Eminent Serjeants-at-law of the English Bar, Volumen2W.H. Allen, 1869 - 900 páginas |
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Página 865 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 838 - Not Guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body ;" and thereupon taking off his glove, he threw it upon the floor of the court. The appellant did not choose to submit to this trial, and abandoned his proceedings.
Página 850 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Página 532 - Between two and three, as we were trying causes, a stack of chimneys blew upon the top of that part* of the hall where I was sitting, and beat the roof down upon us; but, as I sat up close to the wall, I have escaped without the least hurt. When I saw it begin to yield and open, I despaired of my own life and the lives of all within the compass of the roof. Mr. John Lawes is killed, and the attorney in the cause which was trying is killed, and I am afraid some others ; there were many wounded and...
Página 558 - RESULT OF AN ADVOCATE'S PROSY SPEECHES. Sir Samuel Prime was represented as a good-natured but rather dull man, — as an advocate, wearisome beyond comparison. He had to argue an ejectment case on the circuit. The case excited great interest. The court was full, and the day very hot ; nevertheless he spoke for three hours. Early in the cause, a boy managed to clamber to the roof of the court, and seated himself on a transverse beam over the heads of the spectators. Overcome by the heat, and the...
Página 544 - then in opposition to the court, went to Chelsea1 the day before the last debate on Atterbury's affair, where, acting contrition, he professed being determined to work out his pardon at court by speaking against the bishop, in order to which he begged some hints. The minister was deceived, and went through the whole cause with him, pointing out where the strength of the argument lay, and where its weakness.
Página 656 - On any subject on which you consulted him, he would pour forth the treasures of his legal science without order or discrimination. He seemed to be of the order of lawyers of Lord Coke's time, and he was the last of that race. For modern law he had supreme contempt ; and I have heard him observe, that the greatest service that could be rendered the country would be to repeal all the statutes, and burn all the reports which were of a later date than the Revolution.
Página 681 - Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, ' He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood'.
Página 532 - Lawes, my clerk, is killed, and the attorney in the cause which was trying is killed, and I am afraid some others. There were many wounded and bruised. It was the most frightful scene I ever beheld. I was just beginning to sum up the evidence, in the cause which was trying, to the Jury, and intending to go immediately after I had finished. Most of the counsel...
Página 633 - That all's very good," said the Serjeant, " but you want £60 more to be worth £3,000." "For that sum," replied the gentleman, by no means disconcerted. " I have a note of hand of one Mr. Serjeant Davy, and I hope he will have the honesty soon to settle it.