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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... never let any thing come to the press under his name but what belonged to his office , or was absolutely necessary for his vindication . It is no wonder therefore that ( the malice or ignorance of historians apart ) there is so little ...
... never let any thing come to the press under his name but what belonged to his office , or was absolutely necessary for his vindication . It is no wonder therefore that ( the malice or ignorance of historians apart ) there is so little ...
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... never been a lawyer . His mind was so airy and volatile he could not have kept his chamber , if he must needs be there staked down purely to the drudgery of the law whether in study or practice : and yet upon such a leaden proposition ...
... never been a lawyer . His mind was so airy and volatile he could not have kept his chamber , if he must needs be there staked down purely to the drudgery of the law whether in study or practice : and yet upon such a leaden proposition ...
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... never been a lawyer . 15. His lordship's grandfather took a fancy to have him be with him in the country ; for he loved to hear him talk of news , philosophy , and passages in London . He made him play at back - gammon , and fiddle ...
... never been a lawyer . 15. His lordship's grandfather took a fancy to have him be with him in the country ; for he loved to hear him talk of news , philosophy , and passages in London . He made him play at back - gammon , and fiddle ...
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... never to be in the wrong . And he cared not whom he persecuted nor how unjustly or unreasonably , if it tended , as he thought to justify any thing he had done : and the more mistaken he found himself the more violent was he in his . A ...
... never to be in the wrong . And he cared not whom he persecuted nor how unjustly or unreasonably , if it tended , as he thought to justify any thing he had done : and the more mistaken he found himself the more violent was he in his . A ...
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... never was an instance of filial duty to a parent more eminent than that of Sir Dudley North to his father . He lived to a good old age before the barony descended upon him , and had stood as an eldest son of a peer at the state in the ...
... never was an instance of filial duty to a parent more eminent than that of Sir Dudley North to his father . He lived to a good old age before the barony descended upon him , and had stood as an eldest son of a peer at the state in the ...
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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...