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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... majesty ' to encourage him by making him one of his majesty's 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 ...
... majesty ' to encourage him by making him one of his majesty's 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 ...
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... majesty had thought fit to make one of his counsel extraordinary was not worthy to come into their company ; and so ... majesty's courts . This was English , and that evening they conformed and so were reinstated . ' It is one of the ...
... majesty had thought fit to make one of his counsel extraordinary was not worthy to come into their company ; and so ... majesty's courts . This was English , and that evening they conformed and so were reinstated . ' It is one of the ...
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... majesty's own interest ; and so it depended some time . At last an expedient was found , viz.- " Sir Edward Turner made solicitor . made no contrast . " His promotion 67. This gentleman had served long as speaker of par- liament , and ...
... majesty's own interest ; and so it depended some time . At last an expedient was found , viz.- " Sir Edward Turner made solicitor . made no contrast . " His promotion 67. This gentleman had served long as speaker of par- liament , and ...
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... majesty's most loyal and wise commissioner of Scotland ; where , upon a point of descent , the Lord Chief Baron Hales distinguished away a right by descent which had been settled by express judgment of law , by the invention of a mesium ...
... majesty's most loyal and wise commissioner of Scotland ; where , upon a point of descent , the Lord Chief Baron Hales distinguished away a right by descent which had been settled by express judgment of law , by the invention of a mesium ...
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... majesty's ancient borough of Lynn Regis . At first all things seemed fair ; but the night before the election there was notice given that Sir Simon Taylor , a wealthy merchant of wine in that town , stood and had produced a butt of ...
... majesty's ancient borough of Lynn Regis . At first all things seemed fair ; but the night before the election there was notice given that Sir Simon Taylor , a wealthy merchant of wine in that town , stood and had produced a butt of ...
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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...