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" s most unblushing advocate, " made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and returned laden with surrenders, the spoils of towns. "
Local Government - Page 65
by Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - 1883 - 160 pages
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The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of ...

Roger North - 1826 - 496 pages
...another, and, as king, legatus a latcre, esteemed a mighty favourite, which, together with his lofty airs, made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him." (Examen, p. 626.) VOL. II. C the English mode is, reform, not by restoring, or mending, but by kicking...
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The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to ...

Henry Hallam - 1827 - 504 pages
...on the northern circuit in 16H.\ , to use the language of Charles II's most unblushing advocate, " made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him , and returned laden with surrenders the spoils of towns ' . " They received instead new charters , framing...
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A History of the Court of Chancery: With Practical Remarks on the ..., Page 245

Joseph Parkes - 1828 - 670 pages
...from the King, Legatvt a Ltitere, esteemed a' mighty favourite ; which together with his lofty airs, made all the Charters like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him ; and he returned laden with surrenders, the spoils of Towns ; which with certain other performances in that...
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The History of Party: From the Rise of the Whig and Tory Factions ..., Volume 1

George Wingrove Cooke - 1836 - 636 pages
...progress upon the northern circuit he performed the instructions of his master so well, that North* boasts that he made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and he returned from his mission laden with surrenders, the spoils of towns. In tracing this celebrated...
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The Trial of Theodore Parker for the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil ...

Theodore Parker - 1855 - 262 pages
...the Gazette, and Jeffreys was " esteemed a mighty favorite," which, " together with his lofty airs, made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and he returned, laden with surrenders, the spoil of towns." 1 London still remained the strong-hold of...
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The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil ...

Theodore Parker - 1855 - 256 pages
...the Gazette, and Jeffreys was " esteemed a mighty favorite," which, "together with his lofty airs, made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and he returned, laden with surrenders, the spoil of towns." i London still remained the strong-hold of...
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Cambridge examination papers: a suppl. to the University calendar, 1856-59

Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst,' meant to apply ? Sketch his character. 7. ' Jeffreys made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and returned laden with surrenders the spoils of towns.' What important victory of the court party do these...
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Popular History of England, Volume 4

Charles Knight - 1858 - 556 pages
...from the king Legatus à Latere, esteemed a mighty favourite ; which, together with his lofty airs, made all the Charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him ; and he returned laden with surrenders, the spoils of towns." * There was little chance, after this, that...
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An analysis of the Stuart Period of England History

Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...frightened by the authority of the judges o^assize. It is said of Jeffreys on the north circuit in 1681, tha't he "made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and returned laden with surrenders, the spoils of towns". In the new charters, the governing power of the...
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England under the Tudors and Stuarts

James Birchall - 1861 - 760 pages
...of North, Charles II.' s most unblushing advocate, Judge Jeffreys on the northern circuit in 1684, " made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and returned laden with surrenders, the spoils of towns." They received instead, new charters, framing...
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