Strictures on the Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Lawyers of the Present DayE. Lynch, 1790 - 136 Seiten |
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Seite 48 - I think it does not become me to claim or expect reparation from the state. I have made up my mind to my misfortune, as I ought ; with this consolation, that it came from those whose object manifestly was general confusion and destruction at home, in addition to a dangerous and complicated war abroad.
Seite 9 - I fhould gladly receive, if my conditionmade it neceflary; for, to fuch a mind, who would not be proud to own his obligations? But it has pleafed GoD to reftore me to fo great a meafure of health, that if I fhould now appropriate fo much of a fortune deftined to do good, I could not efcape from myfelf the charge of advancing a falfe claim. My journey to...
Seite 9 - I could not escape from myself the charge of advancing a false claim. My journey to the Continent, though I once thought it necessary, was never much encouraged by my physicians ; and I was very desirous that your Lordship should be told of it by Sir Joshua Reynolds, as an event very uncertain ; for if I grew much better I should not be willing ; if much worse, not able to migrate. Your Lordship was first solicited without my knowledge ; but when I was told...
Seite 52 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie; Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
Seite 35 - In his political oratory," says a writer of his own times, " he was not without a rival, but no one had the honour of surpassing him ; and let it be remembered that his competitor was Pitt. The rhetorician that addressed himself to Tully in these...
Seite i - STRICTURES on the lives and characters of the most eminent lawyers of the present day : including, among other celebrated names, those of the Lord Chancellor, and the twelve judges.
Seite 41 - ... due effect to, the laws,' — I have hitherto done it without any other gift or reward than that most pleasing and most honourable one, the conscientious conviction of doing what was right.
Seite 231 - ... the upholder of right, the scourge of oppression, the terror of deceit, and the oracle of his country; and when death calls him to the bar of heaven, by a habeas corpus cum...
Seite 80 - I have gathered from an inceflant courfe of very painful toil; that Your kind intentions extended to a larger field ; and that You had even determined to reward me in a manner the moft agreeable both to my inclinations and to the nature of my ftudies, if an event, which, as it procured an acceflion to Your happinefs, could not but conduce to mine, had not prevented the full effects of Your kindnefs.
Seite 46 - His genius, fays a modern writer, is comprehenfive and penetrating, and when he judges it neceflary, he pours forth founds the moft feductive, equally calculated to perfuade and to convince. Among his more rare qualifications...