The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV.Blanchard and Lea, 1851 |
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... seems to preside ; he is not addressed in de- bate ; he does not name the peer who is to be heard ; he is not appealed to as an authority on points of order ; and he may cheer the sentiments expressed by his colleagues in the minis- try ...
... seems to preside ; he is not addressed in de- bate ; he does not name the peer who is to be heard ; he is not appealed to as an authority on points of order ; and he may cheer the sentiments expressed by his colleagues in the minis- try ...
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... seem destined to be by far the most nu- merous and powerful race of mankind , -occupying not only the British Isles in Europe , but the whole of America from Mexico to the Polar Seas , and the whole of Australia and Polynesia . The ...
... seem destined to be by far the most nu- merous and powerful race of mankind , -occupying not only the British Isles in Europe , but the whole of America from Mexico to the Polar Seas , and the whole of Australia and Polynesia . The ...
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... seems to await all those who devote themselves to legal reform . We do not know with any certainty who framed the Statutes of Westminster in the time of Edward I , the Statute of Fines , the Statute of Uses , the Statute of Wills , or ...
... seems to await all those who devote themselves to legal reform . We do not know with any certainty who framed the Statutes of Westminster in the time of Edward I , the Statute of Fines , the Statute of Uses , the Statute of Wills , or ...
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... seems to have been the policy of William never to allow his great seal to remain long in the same hands . Spelman represents him as having been again Chancellor in 1077 * , and there can be no doubt that he continued a person of ...
... seems to have been the policy of William never to allow his great seal to remain long in the same hands . Spelman represents him as having been again Chancellor in 1077 * , and there can be no doubt that he continued a person of ...
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... seem to have reached any higher ecclesiastical dignity . Although the custody of the Great Seal was in those days considered a certain step to a bishopric , premature death or loss of power had disappointed the hopes of this aspirant ...
... seem to have reached any higher ecclesiastical dignity . Although the custody of the Great Seal was in those days considered a certain step to a bishopric , premature death or loss of power had disappointed the hopes of this aspirant ...
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Página 410 - Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 46 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Página 177 - Edward, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting.
Página 240 - England was deprived at once of both these princes, its chief ornament and support: he expired in the sixty-fifth year of his age and the fifty-first of his reign; and the people were then sensible, though too late, of the irreparable loss which they had sustained.
Página 395 - ... and thought she would devise a mean to abate his high port; wherefore, she procured Venus, the insatiate goddess, to be her instrument...
Página 46 - Equity is a roguish thing. For law we have a measure, know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot 1 . What an uncertain measure would this be.
Página 454 - But, by my counsel, it shall not be best for us to fall to the lowest fare first; we will not therefore descend to Oxford fare, nor to the fare of New Inn, but we will begin with Lincoln's Inn diet, where many right worshipful and of good years do live full well...
Página 435 - And whether ye think it good y' we so shall do or not, yet I think it were not best sodenlye thus to leave it all up, and to put away our folk of our farme, till we have somewhat advised us thereon. Howbeit if we have more nowe than ye shall neede, and which can get the other maister's, ye may then discharge us of them.
Página 372 - King nothing at all, for he loved nothing worse than to be constrained to do any thing contrary to his royal will and pleasure, and that knew the Almoner very well, having a secret intelligence of the King's natural inclination, and so fast as the other councillors advised the King to leave his pleasures and to attend to the affairs of his realm, so busily did the Almoner persuade him to the contrary, which delighted him much, and caused him to have the greater affection and love for the Almoner.