| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1777 - 88 pages
...conftitution, and maintained the juft prerogative of the crown, but without ftretching it to the oppreffion of the people. He was naturally humane, moderate, and decent, and when by his former employments he was obliged to profecute ftate -criminals, he difcharged that duty in a very different... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 734 pages
...conftitution, and maintained the juft prerogative of the crown, but without ftretching it to the oppreffion of the people. He was naturally humane, moderate, and decent, and when by his former employments he was obliged to profecutcitate-criminals, he discharged that duty in a very different... | |
| History - 1794 - 614 pages
...conftitut>on, and maintained the juft prerogative of the crown, but without flretching it to the oppreffion of the people. He was naturally humane, moderate, and decent, and when by his former employments he was obliged to profecute ftate.criminals, he difcharged that duty in a very different... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...conftitution, and maintained the juil prerogative of the crown, but without itretching it to the opprellion of the people. He was naturally humane, moderate, and decent ; and when, by his former employments, he was obliged to profecnte Hate-criminals, he difcharged that dutv in a very different... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...conilitution, and maintained the jufl prerogative of the crown, but without flretching it to the oppreflion of the people. He was naturally humane, moderate, and decent ; and when, by his former employments, he was obliged to profecute Hate-criminals, he difcharged that duty in a very different... | |
| English literature - 1802 - 558 pages
...confutation, .and maintained the jult prerogative of the Crown, but without Itretching it to the oppreflion of the people. He was naturally humane, moderate, and decent ; and when, by his former employments, he was obliged to profecute ftate criminals, he difchargei that duty in a very different... | |
| History - 1805 - 608 pages
...solicitor and attorney-general, be was by no means what is called a prerogative lawyer — he loved thé constitution, and maintained the just prerogative...humane, moderate, and decent, and when, by his former employments, he was obliged to prosecute state-criminals, be discharged that duty in a very different... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...he had been solicitorand attorney-general, he was by no means what is called a prerogative lawyer. He loved the constitution, and maintained the just...humane, moderate, and decent ; and when, by his former employments, he was obliged to prosecute state-criminals, he discharged that dnty in a very different... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...he had been solicitor and attorney-general, he was by no means what û called a prerogative lawyer. Knox employments, he was obliged to prosecute stale-criminals, he discharged that duty in a very different... | |
| Henry Roscoe - Law - 1825 - 338 pages
...been Solicitor and Attorney General, he was by no means, what is called a prerogative lawyer—beloved the constitution, and maintained the just prerogative...humane, moderate, and decent ; and when by his former employments he was obliged to prosecute state criminals, he discharged that duty in a very different... | |
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