 | James Wilson - Constitutional law - 1895 - 642 pages
...Yelverton, " your unexpected choice of me to be your mouth or speaker should proceed, I am utterly ignorant. Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice...comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty. But, contrarily, the stature of my body is small, myself not... | |
 | English periodicals - 1900 - 640 pages
...but my bare annuity. Then, growing to man's estate and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us...stately and well spoken ; his voice great, his courage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful and heavy. But contrarily the stature of my... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Great Britain - 1903 - 400 pages
...requirements. In 1597 Speaker Yelverton apologised for his shortcomings in the following way: " Your Speaker ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful. But, contrarily, the stature of my... | |
 | Harry Graham - Representative government and representation - 1910 - 414 pages
...of " Order ! " When Sergeant Yelverton was elected to the Chair in 1597, he declared that a Speaker ought to be "a man big and comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful," 2 and, with the omission of the... | |
 | Michael MacDonagh - 1914 - 478 pages
...but my lease annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us...estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my early industry. Neither from my person nor nature does this choice arise, for he that supplieth this... | |
 | Ohio State University - History - 1921 - 224 pages
...Anecdotal Hist, of the British Parliament, p. 66. Speaker Yelverton (1597) remarked; "Your Speaker ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken ; his voice great, his carriage majestical, hla. nature haughty, and hts purse plentiful. But contrarily. the stature of my... | |
 | Carl Frederick Wittke - Great Britain - 1921 - 252 pages
...Anecdotal Hist, of the British Parliament, p. 65. Speaker Yelverton (1597) remarked: "Your Speaker ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken ; his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and Ms purse plentiful. But contrarily, the stature of my... | |
 | 1893 - 642 pages
...estate, save a bare annuity as a younger son. Besides he had a wife and a great many children, and ' the keeping of us all being a great impoverishment...living of us all nothing but my daily ' industry.' Further, he had not the personal endowments necessary for a Speaker. ' Neither from my person or nature... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 2005 - 1436 pages
...Yelverton, " your unexpected choice of me to be your mouth or speaker should proceed, I am utterly ignorant. Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice...comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty. But, contrarily, the stature of my body is small, myself not... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 2005 - 1408 pages
...my bare annuity. Then, crowing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children ; the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither from... | |
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... my estate is nothing correspondent for the maintenance of this dignity ; for my father dying left me a younger brother, and nothing to me but my bare annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom... 
