Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham, Volumen1 |
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... lived with him , and had actually seen him taught his alphabet by his mother ; -patted on the head by Queen Elizabeth ; —mock- ing the worshippers of Aristotle at Cambridge ; -catching the first glimpses of his great discoveries , yet ...
... lived with him , and had actually seen him taught his alphabet by his mother ; -patted on the head by Queen Elizabeth ; —mock- ing the worshippers of Aristotle at Cambridge ; -catching the first glimpses of his great discoveries , yet ...
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... lived in chambers , in Gray's Inn Square , which are still visited by those who worship his memory . There can be no doubt that he now diligently and doggedly sat down to the study of his profession , and that he made very great ...
... lived in chambers , in Gray's Inn Square , which are still visited by those who worship his memory . There can be no doubt that he now diligently and doggedly sat down to the study of his profession , and that he made very great ...
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... lived with his royal mistress , who , as tender as ever in her affections , had become more chary of her reputation , and did not continue to raise such suspicions in her Court as in the times of Leicester and Hatton : " I found the ...
... lived with his royal mistress , who , as tender as ever in her affections , had become more chary of her reputation , and did not continue to raise such suspicions in her Court as in the times of Leicester and Hatton : " I found the ...
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... lived close by , was sent for divers times , but would not so much as vouchsafe to come and speak with the poor prisoner , or take any order in the affair , but would leave him to his fate : " although , " says Bacon , " a man I never ...
... lived close by , was sent for divers times , but would not so much as vouchsafe to come and speak with the poor prisoner , or take any order in the affair , but would leave him to his fate : " although , " says Bacon , " a man I never ...
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... lived to see both Houses unanimous in putting down judicial corruption . In this reign he did not again take part in any affairs of importance . Like the Cecils , he was turning his eyes to the north , where the rising light he was ...
... lived to see both Houses unanimous in putting down judicial corruption . In this reign he did not again take part in any affairs of importance . Like the Cecils , he was turning his eyes to the north , where the rising light he was ...
Términos y frases comunes
answer appointed attend Attorney Attorney-General Bacon Bishop Buckingham cause charge Charles Chief Justice Clarendon command Common Pleas Council counsel Court of Chancery Coventry Cromwell Crown defendant delivered duty Earl Essex favour Finch friends Gray's Inn Hacket hath Hist honour House of Commons House of Lords House of Peers impeachment James Judges King kingdom lawyers letter Littleton Long Parliament Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper Lords Commissioners Lordship Majesty Majesty's Master ment never oath offence opinion ordinance Oxford Parl parliament party passed Peers person Petition Petition of Right present Prince Privy proceedings profession prosecution Queen received reign resolved respect royal says Seal of England sent sentence Serjeant Sir Edward Coke Sir Richard Lane Sir Thomas Solicitor Sovereign Speaker speech Star Chamber Strafford summoned thought tion took unto voted Westminster Whitelock Widdrington Williams woolsack writs
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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.