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Page 239 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 170 - O'Brien and the several exhibits therein referred to it is ordered that Monday the 23rd day of April instant be given to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs to show cause why a writ of Habeas Corpus should not issue directed to...
Page 175 - States, or any domestic or domestic servant of any such ambassador or other public minister, may be arrested or imprisoned, or his or their goods or chattels...
Page 8 - Dunning and myself were generous, for we gave the girl who waited on us a penny a-piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, rewarded her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise.
Page 107 - Third, by the grace of God of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland king, defender of the faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five.
Page 96 - Nor, gentlemen, is this belief confined to men of comparative seclusion, since men, the greatest and most distinguished both as philosophers and as monarchs, have enforced this belief, and shown its influence by their conduct. Above all, gentlemen, need I name to you the Emperor Julian, who was so celebrated for the practice of every Christian virtue that he was called Julian the Apostle ? ' It is indisputable that nervous excitation is contagious.
Page 242 - Repeal this law, and see the contrast: no man can trust himself for an hour out of doors without the most alarming apprehensions . that on his return every vestige of his property will be swept away by the hardened robber.
Page 206 - ... event of a total change of system. Of all monarchs, indeed, since the revolution, the successor of George the Third will have the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular.
Page 98 - And turn the unwilling steeds another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; . While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat.
Page 341 - I am going to take boiled chicken/ his Lordship sharply retorted, < That, Sir, is no answer to my question. I ask you again if you will take venison, and I will trouble you to say yes or no, without further prevarication/ " "When my father took the office of Chief Justice, the salary was but twelve hundred and thirty-three dollars.