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... called to the Bar at once . His chambers were at 3 , Fig Tree - court , Temple , overlooking the gardens . CONSCIENTIOUSNESS AND A SMOKY CHIMNEY . A propos of these there is an anecdote worth quoting because it illustrates his ...
... called to the Bar at once . His chambers were at 3 , Fig Tree - court , Temple , overlooking the gardens . CONSCIENTIOUSNESS AND A SMOKY CHIMNEY . A propos of these there is an anecdote worth quoting because it illustrates his ...
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... called to inquire if Mr. Bickersteth was in town , as he wished him to draw a bill for him . " I said that he was out of town , but would return immediately on receiving a communication from me . ' Oh , no ! I will not have him called ...
... called to inquire if Mr. Bickersteth was in town , as he wished him to draw a bill for him . " I said that he was out of town , but would return immediately on receiving a communication from me . ' Oh , no ! I will not have him called ...
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... called to the Bar and marrying the lady of his choice , Miss Merelina Symons . His chance of distinction came with Queen Caroline's trial . His old pupil , Brougham , selected him to be one of the counsel for the Queen , and he amply ...
... called to the Bar and marrying the lady of his choice , Miss Merelina Symons . His chance of distinction came with Queen Caroline's trial . His old pupil , Brougham , selected him to be one of the counsel for the Queen , and he amply ...
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... called to give evidence as to the possibility of reducing the expense created by this sinecure . " If there were any duties connected with the posi- tion , " he said with an ingenious show of logic , " it would be possible to reduce ...
... called to give evidence as to the possibility of reducing the expense created by this sinecure . " If there were any duties connected with the posi- tion , " he said with an ingenious show of logic , " it would be possible to reduce ...
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... called to the Bar in 1817 , and like others he had his early struggles , the more anxious because he had married at the early age of twenty - one . In after years , when he was making more than £ 18,000 a year at the Bar , he was ...
... called to the Bar in 1817 , and like others he had his early struggles , the more anxious because he had married at the early age of twenty - one . In after years , when he was making more than £ 18,000 a year at the Bar , he was ...
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Page 188 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 343 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Page 279 - Be full, ye courts ; be great who will : Search for peace with all your skill : Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor. In vain...
Page 188 - White!* while life was in its spring, And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing, The spoiler came ; and all thy promise fair Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When science self destroy'd her favourite son ! Yes!
Page 157 - England ; and whether, as the Roman in days of old held himself free from indignity when he could say ' Civis Romanus sum,' so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
Page 32 - Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely, may be pursued too keenly, may cost too much ; and surely the meanness and the mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the general evil of infusing reserve and dissimulation, uneasiness...
Page 302 - A murder has just been committed at Salthill, and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at...
Page 406 - I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.
Page 232 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell.
Page 22 - In this state of discrepancy between the decided cases, we think it is, at all events, a safe rule to adopt, that where the misdescription, although not proceeding from fraud, is, in a material and substantial point, so far affecting the subject-matter of the contract, that it may reasonably be supposed, that, but for such misdescription, the purchaser might never have entered into the contract at all, in such case the contract is avoided altogether, and the purchaser is not bound to resort to the...