The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke: With Selections from His Correspondence, Diaries, Speeches, and Judgements, Volume 1E. Moxon, 1847 - Great Britain |
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Page 532 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned...
Page 191 - Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo ! Henley stands. Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue. How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung ! 3o6 H Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain.
Page 165 - A woman, having a settlement, married a man with none ; The question was, he being dead, if that she had was gone. Quoth Sir John Pratt : ' Her settlement suspended did remain, Living the husband ; but, him dead, it doth revive again.
Page 311 - ... extend, or be construed to extend, to any purchase of any estate or interest in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any transfer of any stock, to be made really and bona fide for a full and valuable consideration actually paid at or before the making such conveyance or transfer without fraud or collusion.
Page 529 - An act for the encouragement of learning by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Page 203 - April 24, 1793, of a committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Page 236 - Attorney-General, he was by no means what is called a prerogative lawyer. He loved the Constitution, and maintained the just prerogative of the Crown, but without stretching it to the oppression of the people. He was naturally humane, moderate, and decent ; and when, by his former employments he was obliged to prosecute State Criminals, he discharged that duty in a very different manner from most of his predecessors, who were too justly called the " Bloodhounds of the
Page 150 - The privy council likewise demonstrated, that his majesty's predecessors had always exercised the undoubted prerogative of granting patents for copper coinage in Ireland to private persons; that none of these patents had been so beneficial to the kingdom as this granted to William Wood, who had not obtained it in an unprecedented manner, but after a reference to the attorney and...
Page 83 - He that holdeth his lands in fee Need neither to quake nor to quiver, I humbly conceive; for look, do you see, They are his and his heirs for ever."* A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.
Page 530 - Where books are colourably shortened only, they are undoubtedly within the meaning of the Act of Parliament, and are a mere evasion of the statute, and cannot be called an abridgment. But this must not be carried so far as to restrain persons from making a real and fair abridgment, for abridgments may with great propriety be called a new book, because not only the paper and print, but the invention, learning, and judgment of the author is shown in them, and in many cases are extremely useful, though...