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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... King's Bench to give accounts and answers to the court in the king's affairs , as belonged to his office , he directed his lordship with instructions to do it for him , and he acquitted himself therein with such decent modesty , as well ...
... King's Bench to give accounts and answers to the court in the king's affairs , as belonged to his office , he directed his lordship with instructions to do it for him , and he acquitted himself therein with such decent modesty , as well ...
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... king's counsel shortly ; " and the like ; which showed a spirit of ambition and envy , and was an occasion of some ... King against Hollis , & c . The story of the five members . in King Charles the First's time is well known , who being ...
... king's counsel shortly ; " and the like ; which showed a spirit of ambition and envy , and was an occasion of some ... King against Hollis , & c . The story of the five members . in King Charles the First's time is well known , who being ...
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... king's counsel , -Hollis . " 46. This case of Hollis and other the five members , and his lordship's undertaking to argue for the king , was at a time when his hands were full of business and he was very much straitened in his ...
... king's counsel , -Hollis . " 46. This case of Hollis and other the five members , and his lordship's undertaking to argue for the king , was at a time when his hands were full of business and he was very much straitened in his ...
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... king's counsel , there happened a dispute in his society of the Middle Temple ; which ended favourably to him and augmented his reputation in Westminster Hall . The rulers of the society , called Benchers , refused to call his lordship ...
... king's counsel , there happened a dispute in his society of the Middle Temple ; which ended favourably to him and augmented his reputation in Westminster Hall . The rulers of the society , called Benchers , refused to call his lordship ...
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... king , in all causes in which the king's title was not in question , had liberty to advise and plead ; so good money , besides a gratuity and riding charges , was picked up . But it is not readily conceived what advantage here was by ...
... king , in all causes in which the king's title was not in question , had liberty to advise and plead ; so good money , besides a gratuity and riding charges , was picked up . But it is not readily conceived what advantage here was by ...
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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...