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" ... my estate is nothing correspondent for the maintenance of this dignity; for my father, dying, left me a younger brother, and nothing to me but my bare annuity. Then, growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom... "
The Life of Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England in the Reign of ... - Page 105
by Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837
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History of England, Volume 4

Parliamentary - 1763 - 516 pages
...Annuity. Then growing to Man's Eftate and ' fome -Cf) D'Eimt't yturntlt, izabeth. < fome fman pra<3ice of the Law, I took a Wife ' by whom I have had many Children, the Keep* ing of us all being a great Impoverifhment to my ' Eftate, and the Daily Living of us all nothing...
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The History of England, Volume 5

David Hume - Great Britain - 1775 - 446 pages
...ther; and nothing to me bat my bare annuity. Then " growing to man's eftate and fome fmall pradlice of "the law, I took a wife, by. whom I have had many chil" dren s the keeping of us all being a great impoverifhing " to my eftate, and the daily living...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 7

David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 510 pages
...me but my bare " annuity. Then growing to man's eftate and fome fmall " practice of the law, I todk a wife, by whom I have " had many children ; the keeping of us all being a great " cmpoverifhing to my eftate , and the daily living of us " all nothing but my daily induftry. Neither...
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 5

David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...brother, and nothing to me but my bare " annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some " small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I " have had many children : the keeping of us all being a " great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of " us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither...
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The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the revolution ...

David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...brother, and nothing to me but my bare " annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some " small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I " have had many children : the keeping of us all being a " great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of " us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 6

David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 440 pages
...brother, and nothing to me but my bare annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children : the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither from...
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The History of England, Volume 4

Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 404 pages
...nothing to me but my bare annuity. Then. growing toman's estate, and some small practice of the law, 1 took a wife, by whom I have had many children, the...place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken ; his voice great, his courage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful...
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Ecclesiastical history, a course of lectures, Volume 3

William Jones - 1838 - 696 pages
...brother, and nothing to me but my bare annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many...Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice nrise ; for Ire that supplicth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken...
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Miscellaneous extracts and fragments ... chiefly from works at present out ...

Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 390 pages
...brother, and nothing to me but my bare annuity. Then, growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many...nothing but my daily industry. Neither from my person or nature doth this choice arise ; for he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely,...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 672 pages
...annuity." " Then," uid he, " growing to man's estate and some small practice of the law, I took a vife, by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us...Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice proceed ; for he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken,...
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