The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Under King Charles II and King James II: The Hon. Sir Dudley North, Commissioner of the Customs, and Afterwards of the Treasury, to King Charles II : And the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Clerk of the Closet to King Charles II, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1826 - College teachers |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 100
Page xxii
... person , derivable from the honour of his family ( because his own value , and not his ancestors ' must set him off ) ... persons of such upstart principles that , with them , antiquity of families xxii AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
... person , derivable from the honour of his family ( because his own value , and not his ancestors ' must set him off ) ... persons of such upstart principles that , with them , antiquity of families xxii AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
Page 1
... person had ever lived in the world . I shall allege but one in- stance , and that is an egregious one . A late double- columned historian , * in folio , of whom mention VOL . I. * Kennet . B Declined has been made already in the preface ...
... person had ever lived in the world . I shall allege but one in- stance , and that is an egregious one . A late double- columned historian , * in folio , of whom mention VOL . I. * Kennet . B Declined has been made already in the preface ...
Page 4
... person's life and actions ( so near his time as we are ) now extant ; and , probably , after a reign or two more , bating a formal list of Lord Keepers , that lets none escape , his very name will be forgot . Here is reason enough to ...
... person's life and actions ( so near his time as we are ) now extant ; and , probably , after a reign or two more , bating a formal list of Lord Keepers , that lets none escape , his very name will be forgot . Here is reason enough to ...
Page 5
... person , that we were almost inseparable . Therefore , upon the strength of the latter of these qualifications ... persons of his intimacy , capable or concerned to remember much of him , are dead , or at least , after so many years ...
... person , that we were almost inseparable . Therefore , upon the strength of the latter of these qualifications ... persons of his intimacy , capable or concerned to remember much of him , are dead , or at least , after so many years ...
Page 7
... person of honour , I show an example of industry , ingenuity , probity , virtue , justice , and , in the course of all these , deservedly successful , without one minute retrograde , but concluding all at once by a natural death , and ...
... person of honour , I show an example of industry , ingenuity , probity , virtue , justice , and , in the course of all these , deservedly successful , without one minute retrograde , but concluding all at once by a natural death , and ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afterwards answer appear attended attorney authority better brother brought called cause Chancery character circuit clerk Common Pleas concerned counsel court crown daughter declared discourse divers Dudley North Duke Earl England Examen faction favour fell friends gave gentlemen give Hales hath heard honour House of Commons Howell's State Trials judge jury king King's Bench king's counsel knew lady law French lawyer lived London Lord Chief Justice Lord Keeper Lord North Lord Shaftesbury lordship majesty's married matter Memoirs ment Middle Temple never Oates's plot observed opinion parliament party pass person plot practice pretended proceedings reason relation Roger North seal serjeant Shaftesbury ship ship's side Sir Dudley North Sir Jeoffry Palmer Sir William Jones solicitor sort taken ther thereupon thing thought fit tion told took touched town trial truth turn writ
Popular passages
Page 321 - Mr. North, notwithstanding the liberality of some of his opinions, was made a privy counsellor, and some time after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal . He opposed Jeffries, the celebrated Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, with mildness and caution, and secured and used wisely the esteem of his...
Page 184 - His skull-caps, which he wore when he had leisure to observe his constitution, as I touched before, were now destined to lie in a drawer, to receive the money that came in by fees. One had the gold, another the crowns and half-crowns, and another the smaller money. When these vessels were full, they were committed to his friend (the Hon. Roger North), who was constantly near him, to tell out the cash and put it into the bags according to the contents ; and so they went to his treasurers, Blanchard...
Page 319 - There came in my time to the College one Nathaniel Conopios, out of Greece, from Cyrill, the patriarch of Constantinople, who, returning many years after, was made (as I ,understand) Bishop of Smyrna. He was the first I ever saw drink coffee; which custom came not into England till thirty years after.
Page 20 - He, also, diligently common-placed the' substance of his reading, having acquired a very small but legible hand—" for," as his biographer observes, " where contracting is the main business, it is not well to write, as the fashion then was, uncial or semi-uncial letters to look like pigs
Page 134 - Quaker's counsel pretended, that it was no marriage that had passed between them, since it was not solemnized according to the rules of the Church of England ; he declared, that he was not willing on his own opinion to make their children bastards ; and gave directions to the jury to find it special.
Page 288 - And because the hideous road along by the Tyne, for the many and sharp turnings and perpetual precipices, was for a coach, not sustained by main force, impassable, his lordship was forced to take horse, and to ride most part of the way to Hexham.
Page 45 - He is a young man, with a very handsome face, a good head of hair, a pretty big voice, well set, and a good round leg.
Page 281 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 274 - So litde of vain ostentation was to be seen there. At the entrance, where coaches ordinarily came in, the duke built a neat dwelling-house, but pompous stables, which would accommodate forty horses, as well as the best stables he had. This was called the inn, and was contrived for the ease of the suitors, as I may call them ; for instead of...
Page 82 - If he discovered a point which his leader had omitted, he would not excite dislike by moving it himself, but suggest it to his senior, and thus conciliate his regard. He was, also, to use the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a judge's tendency to serve his turn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion.