The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV.Blanchard and Lea, 1851 |
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... present Position , 477. Speaker of House of Lords , 477. He is forced to accept the Great Seal , 478 . stalled , 478. Made a Peer , 478. Triennial Bill , 478. His Cowardice , 479 . raignment of Strafford , 479. Lord Keeper pretends ...
... present Position , 477. Speaker of House of Lords , 477. He is forced to accept the Great Seal , 478 . stalled , 478. Made a Peer , 478. Triennial Bill , 478. His Cowardice , 479 . raignment of Strafford , 479. Lord Keeper pretends ...
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... present ease , prevailed , and , on the 23d of October , 1547 , Richard Lord Rich was appointed Lord Chancellor of England . * The ceremony of delivering the Great Seal to him took place at Hampton Court , in the presence of the infant ...
... present ease , prevailed , and , on the 23d of October , 1547 , Richard Lord Rich was appointed Lord Chancellor of England . * The ceremony of delivering the Great Seal to him took place at Hampton Court , in the presence of the infant ...
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... present , for although he survived , by the seasonable death of King Henry VIII . a few hours before the time appointed for his execution , he was still kept a prisoner in the Tower , from the apprehensions of both parties , and his ...
... present , for although he survived , by the seasonable death of King Henry VIII . a few hours before the time appointed for his execution , he was still kept a prisoner in the Tower , from the apprehensions of both parties , and his ...
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... present form of government . He , de- nying the fact , insisted that the charge did not amount to treason ; for the Protector's power being usurped , contrary to the will of the late King founded on an act of parliament , resistance to ...
... present form of government . He , de- nying the fact , insisted that the charge did not amount to treason ; for the Protector's power being usurped , contrary to the will of the late King founded on an act of parliament , resistance to ...
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... present height of power . He accordingly took an active part in those proceedings against Somerset , which terminated in his being dismissed from the Protectorship . He presided at the examinations of his former patron before the ...
... present height of power . He accordingly took an active part in those proceedings against Somerset , which terminated in his being dismissed from the Protectorship . He presided at the examinations of his former patron before the ...
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Página 69 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is 't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha...
Página 361 - But farther, 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 farther 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...
Página 350 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 332 - This is the only justification which I will use. ' It resteth therefore, that without figleaves, I do ingenuously confess and acknowledge that, having understood the particulars of the charge, not formally from the house, but enough to inform my conscience and memory, I find matter sufficient and full, both to move me to desert the defence, and to move your lordships to condemn and censure me.
Página 391 - 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.
Página 355 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Página 431 - 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 136 - Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : But I would have you know that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by Cod, I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, as you demean yourself, ELIZABETH.
Página 496 - The hearers more concern'd than he that spake : Each seem'd to act that part he came to see, And none was more a looker-on than he. So did he move our passions, some were known To wish, for the defence, the crime their own. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
Página 498 - It was true, we give law to hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase ; but it was never accounted either cruelty, or foul play, to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they be beasts of prey.