Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham, Volumen1 |
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... according to the rules then prevailing , was not entitled to practise till he had got another step , which was " coming within bars . ' To this he was not entitled by his standing , but he might have obtained it by the recommendation of ...
... according to the rules then prevailing , was not entitled to practise till he had got another step , which was " coming within bars . ' To this he was not entitled by his standing , but he might have obtained it by the recommendation of ...
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... according to their " ancienty " or standing . Bacon was exceedingly delighted with this glimpse of Court favour , but he derived little solid advantage from it ; for he was allowed no salary , and he had only a few stray briefs , with ...
... according to their " ancienty " or standing . Bacon was exceedingly delighted with this glimpse of Court favour , but he derived little solid advantage from it ; for he was allowed no salary , and he had only a few stray briefs , with ...
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... according to all precedent , he was disqualified to act as a representative of the people , being summoned to the House of Lords , —it was unanimously resolved that he should retain his seat in the Lower House . " There happened in my ...
... according to all precedent , he was disqualified to act as a representative of the people , being summoned to the House of Lords , —it was unanimously resolved that he should retain his seat in the Lower House . " There happened in my ...
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... According to the fashion of the times , he accompanied this letter with the present of a jewel . His hopes were excited by a note he received a few days after from his friend Foulke Greville , who was at Court when the offering arrived ...
... According to the fashion of the times , he accompanied this letter with the present of a jewel . His hopes were excited by a note he received a few days after from his friend Foulke Greville , who was at Court when the offering arrived ...
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... according to the law . Herein , though I could not be ignorant either of the difficulty of the matter which he that taketh in hand shall soon find , or much less of my own unableness which I have continual sense and feeling of , yet ...
... according to the law . Herein , though I could not be ignorant either of the difficulty of the matter which he that taketh in hand shall soon find , or much less of my own unableness which I have continual sense and feeling of , yet ...
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Página 79 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Página 142 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell .and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth...
Página 11 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends...
Página 26 - That the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence," is a man's self, certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise.
Página 107 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Página 50 - I will now make it appear to the world, that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou...
Página 178 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat ? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father : and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Página 226 - And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know.
Página 142 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Página 136 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.