The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV.Blanchard and Lea, 1851 - Great Britain |
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... Finch refuses to put Question , 426. Tumultuous Dissolution , 476. Disuse of Parliaments , 426 . Plan of introducing ... FINCH , FROM HIS BIRTH TILL THE MEETING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT . Infamy of new Lord Keeper , 445. Reasons for ...
... Finch refuses to put Question , 426. Tumultuous Dissolution , 476. Disuse of Parliaments , 426 . Plan of introducing ... FINCH , FROM HIS BIRTH TILL THE MEETING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT . Infamy of new Lord Keeper , 445. Reasons for ...
Page xix
... Finch refuses to , put the Question , 452. Tumultuous Proceedings in the House , 452. Dissolution , Masque by the Four Inns of Court , 452. Procession to Whitehall , 453 . Finch returns thanks to the King and Queen , 453. He is made a ...
... Finch refuses to , put the Question , 452. Tumultuous Proceedings in the House , 452. Dissolution , Masque by the Four Inns of Court , 452. Procession to Whitehall , 453 . Finch returns thanks to the King and Queen , 453. He is made a ...
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... Finch , whom he kept in his lodgings for six months [ JUNE 25. ] following , working with him night and day . In the meanwhile , to add to his dignity , he was made a Privy Councillor , and ap- pointed to the see of Lincoln . Parliament ...
... Finch , whom he kept in his lodgings for six months [ JUNE 25. ] following , working with him night and day . In the meanwhile , to add to his dignity , he was made a Privy Councillor , and ap- pointed to the see of Lincoln . Parliament ...
Page 380
... Finch and the officers of the Court , he had got some little insight into its rules and practice ; he never sat in public without the assistance of the Master of the Rolls , or some of the common - law Judges supposed to be most ...
... Finch and the officers of the Court , he had got some little insight into its rules and practice ; he never sat in public without the assistance of the Master of the Rolls , or some of the common - law Judges supposed to be most ...
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... Finch , the Lord Keeper , and by Archbishop Laud ; but the Lords agreed on an address to the King in his favour , and sent their own officer , the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod , to the Tower to deliver him out of custody . He was ...
... Finch , the Lord Keeper , and by Archbishop Laud ; but the Lords agreed on an address to the King in his favour , and sent their own officer , the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod , to the Tower to deliver him out of custody . He was ...
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Page 69 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is 't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha...
Page 361 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Page 259 - You may observe, that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent), there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love; which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion.
Page 242 - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading ; but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator...
Page 75 - With us the nobility, gentry, and students, do ordinarily go to dinner at eleven before noon, and to supper at five, or between five and six at afternoon. The merchants dine and sup seldom before twelve at noon and six at night, especially in London. The husbandmen dine also at high noon as they call it, and sup at seven or eight : but out of term in our universities the scholars dine at ten.
Page 351 - My conceit of his person," says Ben Jonson very finely, "was never increased towards him by his place or honours'; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself; in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want.
Page 391 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat ? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
Page 136 - Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : But I would have you know that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by Cod, I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, as you demean yourself, ELIZABETH.
Page 278 - Lastly, for this divulged and almost prostituted title of knighthood, I could without charge, by your honour's mean, be content to have it, both because of this late disgrace, and because I have three new knights in my mess in Gray's Inn commons ; and because I have found out an alderman's daughter,* a handsome maiden to my liking.
Page 242 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.