 | Cresacre More - Christian martyrs - 1828 - 470 pages
...yourself can well tell (I am sorry you compel me to speak it) you were always esteemed very light of your tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame either there or at your house in the Temple, where hath been your bringing up. Can it therefore seem... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 684 pages
...yourself can well tell (I am sorry you compel me to speak it) you were always esteemed very light of your tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame either there or in the Temple, the Inn to which you have belonged. Can it therefore seem likely to... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1847 - 548 pages
...breach of the vow they had taken. * See Grandeur of Law, p. 15. him off. While yet a youth, he was " esteemed very light of his tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame."* He does not seem ever to have been at any University ; but his father, finding there was no chance... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 pages
...yourself can well tell (I am sorry you compel me to speak it) you were always esteemed very light of your tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame either there or in the Temple, the Inn to which you have belonged. Can it therefore seem likely to... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 510 pages
...habits, all who had any regard to character were obliged to throw him off While yet a youth, he was " esteemed very light of his tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame."* He does not seem ever to have been at any University ; but his father, finding there was no chance... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 504 pages
...habits, all who had any regard to character were obliged to throw him off. While yet a youth, he was " esteemed very light of his tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame." 5 * . He does not seem ever to have been at any University ; butms father, finding there was no chance... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 534 pages
...yourself can well tell (I am sorry you compel me to speak it) you were always esteemed very light of your tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame either there or in the Temple, the Inn to which you have belonged. Can it therefore seem likely to... | |
 | Anne Manning - Christian saints - 1852 - 200 pages
...from your youth up were familiar to me, and it paineth me to tell ye were ever held very light of your tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame either there or in the Temple, the inn to which ye have belonged. Is it credible, therefore, to your... | |
 | 1858 - 616 pages
...the Middle Temple and was called to the bar. In early life he was, according to sir Thomas More, " very light o'f his tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame." He however got some practice at the bar, and was autumn reader of the Middle Temple 1530, being also... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Law - 1867 - 444 pages
...beyond Scroggs or Jeffreys deserves to be remembered as the arch-scoundrel of the legal profession—was one of Thomas More's playmates and boon companions...Sheriffs, and presided over a separate court on the Thursday of each week. Whilst living in Bucklersbury he had chambers in Lincoln's Inn. On leaving Bucklersbury... | |
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... esteemed very light of your tongue, a great dicer and gamester, and not of any commendable fame either there or at your house in the Temple, where hath been your bringing up. 
