The safety of Jersey; being a familiar illustration of the forms, practice, and privileges of the royal court1841 |
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... it into better company - but there is no hazarding this expense at first - your plain English reader loves his penny worth for his penny - and he is apt to startle at a thin page and large margin , and thinks your pictures but a iv .
... it into better company - but there is no hazarding this expense at first - your plain English reader loves his penny worth for his penny - and he is apt to startle at a thin page and large margin , and thinks your pictures but a iv .
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Yonge. and large margin , and thinks your pictures but a pretty device to cheat him of his money . - Hurd's Dialogues . In compliance with the preceding hints , the writer begs to inform his friends and the public ... pictures but a ...
Yonge. and large margin , and thinks your pictures but a pretty device to cheat him of his money . - Hurd's Dialogues . In compliance with the preceding hints , the writer begs to inform his friends and the public ... pictures but a ...
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... picture of His Most Gracious Majesty George III . , for all the good it did . ' 6 I did not know that a defendant ... pictures appear to be well painted . ' Not amiss - that of King George III . was taken by an artist of the name of Jean ...
... picture of His Most Gracious Majesty George III . , for all the good it did . ' 6 I did not know that a defendant ... pictures appear to be well painted . ' Not amiss - that of King George III . was taken by an artist of the name of Jean ...
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... picture of Marshal Conway , formerly Governor of this Island - it is said to have cost three hundred guineas , and ... pictures such as that , where the least attractive object is the costume , and where intellectuality , ever standing ...
... picture of Marshal Conway , formerly Governor of this Island - it is said to have cost three hundred guineas , and ... pictures such as that , where the least attractive object is the costume , and where intellectuality , ever standing ...
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... picture as yet- remember that it is not one grievance makes a hell , no more than one swallow a summer - Jersey offers many advantages , notwithstanding this drawback , and with which time alone can familiarize you — stay a little ...
... picture as yet- remember that it is not one grievance makes a hell , no more than one swallow a summer - Jersey offers many advantages , notwithstanding this drawback , and with which time alone can familiarize you — stay a little ...
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Page 54 - Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Page 8 - cheap defence," like the immortal Falstaff, who was not only witty himself, but the cause of wit in others...
Page 45 - The oath administered to the witness is not only that what he deposes shall be true, but that he shall also depose the whole truth: so that he is not to conceal any part of what he knows, whether interrogated particularly to that point or not.
Page 26 - I'recedents.—The precedents of the Royal Court are overwhelmingly numerous, and are so often unjust and contradictory, that they may be compared to papers in so many pigeon holes, from which some may be taken out to suit every occasion.