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... Lordship was a very bad speaker , and he delivered his remarks from the bench in such a disjointed and imperfect manner , that sometimes they were not very intelligible ; this , it is believed , is the true reason why his merits as a ...
... Lordship was a very bad speaker , and he delivered his remarks from the bench in such a disjointed and imperfect manner , that sometimes they were not very intelligible ; this , it is believed , is the true reason why his merits as a ...
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... Lordship's vigorous rule it was not wholly put down . Indeed many things might be instanced not exactly suited to our notions of judicial decorum . Thus we have the Lord Chancellor 5 superintending the law - suits of a friend , and ...
... Lordship's vigorous rule it was not wholly put down . Indeed many things might be instanced not exactly suited to our notions of judicial decorum . Thus we have the Lord Chancellor 5 superintending the law - suits of a friend , and ...
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... Lordship , " they had neither kith nor kin . ” The restoration brought back with it the evils , though perhaps ... Lordships engaged , " upon their honours , to observe the conditions of previous acts . " A strange engagement truly , and ...
... Lordship , " they had neither kith nor kin . ” The restoration brought back with it the evils , though perhaps ... Lordships engaged , " upon their honours , to observe the conditions of previous acts . " A strange engagement truly , and ...
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... Lordship was , ' I'll enquire of Pat about it , I'll take care of your cause . Go home and mind your business . ' This judge , in that case , was even as good as his word , for while his brother judges were robing , he would tell them ...
... Lordship was , ' I'll enquire of Pat about it , I'll take care of your cause . Go home and mind your business . ' This judge , in that case , was even as good as his word , for while his brother judges were robing , he would tell them ...
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... Lordships are next represented as remitting the application to Lord Castlehill , who , it would appear , was no great favourer of the system , as he upon 66 Considering the supplicatione , Declares that the peats are grievous to the ...
... Lordships are next represented as remitting the application to Lord Castlehill , who , it would appear , was no great favourer of the system , as he upon 66 Considering the supplicatione , Declares that the peats are grievous to the ...
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Page 129 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 130 - ... lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown ; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to Misery all he had — a tear; He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode — There they alike in trembling hope repose — The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 133 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 118 - When, wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last sob by the side of his dam.
Page 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 117 - Dark green was that spot mid the brown mountainheather, Where the Pilgrim of Nature lay stretch'd in decay, Like the corpse of an outcast abandon'd to weather, Till the mountain-winds wasted the tenantless clay. Nor yet quite deserted, though lonely extended, For, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended, The much-loved remains of her master defended, And chased the hill-fox and the raven away.
Page 117 - How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber ? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start '.' How many long days and long weeks didst thou number, Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart?
Page 117 - I CLIMBED the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn, Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide : All was still, save, by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied.
Page 206 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
Page 128 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, 70 Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.