The Life of Judge Jeffreys: Chief Justice of the King's Bench Under Charles II, and Lord High Chancellor of England During the Reign of James IILindsay and Blakiston, 1852 - 316 Seiten |
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The Life of Judge Jeffreys: Chief Justice of the King's Bench Under Charles ... Humphrey W. Woolrych Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 299 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Seite 91 - Street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he 65 cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.
Seite 208 - I hope we are all Englishmen, and not to be frightened out of our duty by a few hard words.
Seite 140 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.
Seite 141 - you must be cackling, too ; we told you your objection was very ingenious ; but that must not make you troublesome ; you cannot lay an egg, but you must be cackling over it.
Seite 61 - He was witty upon the prisoners at the bar. He was very full of his jokes upon people that came to give evidence, not suffering them to declare what they had to say in their own way and method, but would interrupt them because they behaved themselves with more gravity than he.
Seite 62 - ... said he was every night drinking till two o'clock, or beyond that time, and that he went to his chamber drunk; but this I have only by common fame, for I was not in his company; I bless God I am not a man of his principles or behaviour; but in the mornings he appeared with the symptoms of a man that overnight had taken a large cup.
Seite 145 - I observe you are in all these dirty causes ; and were it not for you gentlemen of the long robe, who should have more wit and honesty than to support and hold up these factious knaves by the chin, we should not be at the pass we are.
Seite 113 - I hope, gentlemen of the jury, you take notice of the strange and horrible carriage of this fellow ; and withal, you cannot but observe the spirit of that sort of people, what a villainous and devilish one it is ; Good God ! that ever the thing called religion (a word that people have so much abused) should ever wind up persons to such a height of impiety, that it should make them lose the belief...
Seite 202 - England, has rendered the crown, as well in the reign of the late King of ever blessed memory as since His Majesty's accession to the throne, was pleased this day [October I, 1685] to commit to him the custody of the Great Seal of England with the title of Lord Chancellor.