The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke: With Selections from His Correspondence, Diaries, Speeches, and Judgements, Band 1E. Moxon, 1847 |
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Seite 538 - 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 230 - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Seite 535 - 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.
Seite 203 - April 24, 1793, of a committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Seite 148 - 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...
Seite 81 - 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.
Seite 219 - Will serve him no longer In verse or in prose; For twelve honest men have decided the cause, Who are judges of fact, though not judges of...
Seite 311 - Stock, to be made really and bond fide for a full and valuable Consideration actually paid at or before the making such Conveyance or Transfer, without Fraud or Collusion.