The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North: Together with the Autobiography of the Author, Volume 11890 |
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... counsel that understood better . I doubt not but his lordship was encouraged by Mr. Attorney to commonplace so much as he did , whereof the want might be sensible to himself that had not done so but , too late perhaps , wished he had ...
... counsel that understood better . I doubt not but his lordship was encouraged by Mr. Attorney to commonplace so much as he did , whereof the want might be sensible to himself that had not done so but , too late perhaps , wished he had ...
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... counsel about suing , was told his bond was utterly voided by his adding words to the condition after sealing . Then he was advised not to put it to suit till the scrivener was dead . His lordship and other of Mr. Stutvile's counsel ...
... counsel about suing , was told his bond was utterly voided by his adding words to the condition after sealing . Then he was advised not to put it to suit till the scrivener was dead . His lordship and other of Mr. Stutvile's counsel ...
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... counsel shortly ; " and the like ; which showed a spírit of ambition and envy , and was an occasion of some inconvenience to his lordship , as will be showed elsewhere . I have heard his lordship say , that once , at the desire of the ...
... counsel shortly ; " and the like ; which showed a spírit of ambition and envy , and was an occasion of some inconvenience to his lordship , as will be showed elsewhere . I have heard his lordship say , that once , at the desire of the ...
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Together with the Autobiography of the Author Roger North Augustus Jessopp. J B MADE KING'S COUNSEL . 49 bar . This action and its consequence had the effect of a trumpet to his fame , for the king had no counsel at law then except ...
Together with the Autobiography of the Author Roger North Augustus Jessopp. J B MADE KING'S COUNSEL . 49 bar . This action and its consequence had the effect of a trumpet to his fame , for the king had no counsel at law then except ...
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... counsel . And all this was only as the occasion offered , without any suit or contrivance on his lordship's part , to bring it about . His lordship feared that the Lord Keeper Bridgman , who by his place superintends the preferments in ...
... counsel . And all this was only as the occasion offered , without any suit or contrivance on his lordship's part , to bring it about . His lordship feared that the Lord Keeper Bridgman , who by his place superintends the preferments in ...
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Page 286 - When he was in temper and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place. He took a pleasure in mortifying fraudulent attorneys, and would deal forth his severities with a sort of majesty. He had extraordinary natural abilities, but little acquired beyond what practice in affairs had supplied. He talked fluently and with spirit ; and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding ; and in such Billingsgate language as...