The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon: Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor's Life from His Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the Same, and of His History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to His Banishment in 1667, Volume 1 |
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... called to the Bar , though He had ftudied the Law very well , and was a very good Scholar , having proceeded Master of Arts in Oxford , had yet no Mind to the Practice of the Law , but had long had an Inclination to travel be- yond the ...
... called to the Bar , though He had ftudied the Law very well , and was a very good Scholar , having proceeded Master of Arts in Oxford , had yet no Mind to the Practice of the Law , but had long had an Inclination to travel be- yond the ...
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... called in , told his Father , that a Poft was then paffed through the Village to Charleton , the Houfe of the Earl of Berk- hire , to inform the Earl of Berkshire that the Duke of Buckingham was killed the Day before , ( being the 24th ...
... called in , told his Father , that a Poft was then paffed through the Village to Charleton , the Houfe of the Earl of Berk- hire , to inform the Earl of Berkshire that the Duke of Buckingham was killed the Day before , ( being the 24th ...
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... called to the Bar , and entered into the Profeffion of the Law , He was not fo confident of himself that He fhould not start aside , if his Father fhould die , who was then near feventy Years of Age , having long entertained Thoughts of ...
... called to the Bar , and entered into the Profeffion of the Law , He was not fo confident of himself that He fhould not start aside , if his Father fhould die , who was then near feventy Years of Age , having long entertained Thoughts of ...
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... called out by fome of his Friends , who fpared him the more , because He always complied with those Summons ; otherwife He never fupped , for many Years ( before the Troubles brought in that Custom ) both for the gaining that Time for ...
... called out by fome of his Friends , who fpared him the more , because He always complied with those Summons ; otherwife He never fupped , for many Years ( before the Troubles brought in that Custom ) both for the gaining that Time for ...
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... called to the Bar ; yet in all other Respects He seemed not to confine himself wholly to that Course of Life ) now when They no fooner faw him put on his Gown , but that He was fuddenly in Practice , and taken Notice of particularly in ...
... called to the Bar ; yet in all other Respects He seemed not to confine himself wholly to that Course of Life ) now when They no fooner faw him put on his Gown , but that He was fuddenly in Practice , and taken Notice of particularly in ...
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Page 307 - Irish to retire by such a day, under the penalty of death ; and all who should after that time be found in any other part of the kingdom, man, woman, -or child, should be killed by any body who saw or met them.
Page 308 - ... at very valuable rates, and jointures made upon marriages, and all other conveyances and settlements executed, as in a kingdom at peace within itself, and where no doubt could be made of the validity of titles.
Page 452 - I will conform to the liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by law established.
Page 27 - ... nature ; his own marriage with a lady, though of an extraordinary beauty, of as extraordinary a fame ; his changing and rechanging his religion ; and...
Page 31 - ... and governed by a mind and understanding so excellent, that the wit and weight of all he said carried another kind of lustre and admiration in it, and even another kind of acceptation from the persons present, than any ornament of delivery could reasonably...
Page 288 - Fergus : and it might well be a question, whether the generality of the nation was not better contented with it, than to return into the old road of subjection.
Page 38 - ... a price ; that it had power to reconcile him to those whom he had most offended and provoked ; and continued to his age with that rare felicity, that his company was acceptable where his spirit was odious ; and he was, at least, pitied where he was most detested.
Page 24 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
Page 28 - He was a person of a pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems, (especially in the amorous way,) which for the sharpness of the fancy, and the elegancy of the language in which that fancy was spread, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time...
Page 24 - Mr. Selden was a person whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds and in all languages, (as may appear in his excellent and transcendent writings,) that a man would have thought he had been entirely conversant amongst books, and had never spent an hour but in reading and writing...