Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume 1 |
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Page 60
... judgment , became an offence , only pal- liated by considering those kindly feelings of a per- sonal kind which governed him , but which every statesman , indeed every one who acts in any capacity as trustee for others , is imperatively ...
... judgment , became an offence , only pal- liated by considering those kindly feelings of a per- sonal kind which governed him , but which every statesman , indeed every one who acts in any capacity as trustee for others , is imperatively ...
Page 63
... judgment , and the power to reward his welcome conversion . The youngest man living will not survive the fatal effects of this flagrant political crime . The abandonment of the Catholic question by the same minister when he returned to ...
... judgment , and the power to reward his welcome conversion . The youngest man living will not survive the fatal effects of this flagrant political crime . The abandonment of the Catholic question by the same minister when he returned to ...
Page 71
... judgments in Chancery , where he imported into a case before him facts not belonging to it , but recollected by him as having been proved in the case of Douglas . His manner in earlier life was remarked as excellent ; and though it ...
... judgments in Chancery , where he imported into a case before him facts not belonging to it , but recollected by him as having been proved in the case of Douglas . His manner in earlier life was remarked as excellent ; and though it ...
Page 84
... remarkable enough for clear and even feli- citous statement ; but in close argument , as in profound knowledge , they are evidently deficient . Some of his judgments in the Common Pleas were more distin- guished by 84 LORD LOUGHBOROUGH .
... remarkable enough for clear and even feli- citous statement ; but in close argument , as in profound knowledge , they are evidently deficient . Some of his judgments in the Common Pleas were more distin- guished by 84 LORD LOUGHBOROUGH .
Page 85
Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux. judgments in the Common Pleas were more distin- guished by ability , and more admired at the time , than any which he pronounced in the court where the greater part of his life had been passed ...
Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux. judgments in the Common Pleas were more distin- guished by ability , and more admired at the time , than any which he pronounced in the court where the greater part of his life had been passed ...
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