The Judges of England: With Sketches of Their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the Time of the Conquest, Volume 8Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1864 |
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... House of Commons , an able lawyer and not inferior to many of those on the bench , of a good life and great integrity , cordial to the Government and serviceable in it . ” 1 ' Baker's Northamptonshire , 639-646 ; Inner Temple Books . It ...
... House of Commons , an able lawyer and not inferior to many of those on the bench , of a good life and great integrity , cordial to the Government and serviceable in it . ” 1 ' Baker's Northamptonshire , 639-646 ; Inner Temple Books . It ...
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... House of Lords he supported the opinion of Chief Justice Holt ; when the judgment which he had opposed was reversed . So little further is recorded of Sir Thomas , either in praise or censure , that he may be presumed to have filled his ...
... House of Lords he supported the opinion of Chief Justice Holt ; when the judgment which he had opposed was reversed . So little further is recorded of Sir Thomas , either in praise or censure , that he may be presumed to have filled his ...
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... house he spoke three times , and with such effect as to establish his character as an orator and to foreshadow the position he was soon to acquire as the senatorial leader of his party . He represented the same constituency in the ...
... house he spoke three times , and with such effect as to establish his character as an orator and to foreshadow the position he was soon to acquire as the senatorial leader of his party . He represented the same constituency in the ...
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... house , and was accordingly returned for Beeralston in that and the last parliament of William III . and in the first of Queen Anne ; at the end of which he ceased to be a commoner . High as was his repu- tation as an orator , the ...
... house , and was accordingly returned for Beeralston in that and the last parliament of William III . and in the first of Queen Anne ; at the end of which he ceased to be a commoner . High as was his repu- tation as an orator , the ...
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... House , Lincoln's Inn Fields , and subsequently in Great George Street ; and his country one was at a spot called Colne Green in the parish of Hertingfordbury , the manor of which he had purchased . The house which he built there was ...
... House , Lincoln's Inn Fields , and subsequently in Great George Street ; and his country one was at a spot called Colne Green in the parish of Hertingfordbury , the manor of which he had purchased . The house which he built there was ...
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Page 361 - of BUTLER. " I distinctly remember," says he, " Lord Camden 's presiding in the Court of Chancery. His Lordship's judicial eloquence was of the colloquial kind — extremely simple, — diffuse, but not desultory. He introduced legal idioms frequently, and always with a pleasing and great effect. Sometimes, however, he rose to the sublime strains of eloquence ; but the sublimity was altogether in the sentiment ; the diction retained its simplicity ; this increased the effect.
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