Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, 2. köideLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1822 - 413 pages |
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... thought proper to in- form posterity , that it was by his instrumentality that a knot so worthy the interposition of a christian pre- late was solved . For some time the queen resisted 66 his most earnest solicitations , saying , My ...
... thought proper to in- form posterity , that it was by his instrumentality that a knot so worthy the interposition of a christian pre- late was solved . For some time the queen resisted 66 his most earnest solicitations , saying , My ...
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... thought it best , once for all , to let you know in plainness what I find of you , and what you shall find of me , to take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law , my experience , my discretion : what it pleaseth you I ...
... thought it best , once for all , to let you know in plainness what I find of you , and what you shall find of me , to take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law , my experience , my discretion : what it pleaseth you I ...
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... of lord - chan- cellor ; -Bacon , now attorney - general , admitted to the privy - council and possessed of the ear of the king , openly aspired to this high dignity ; but he VOL . II . D saw , saw , or thought he saw , in Coke a 33.
... of lord - chan- cellor ; -Bacon , now attorney - general , admitted to the privy - council and possessed of the ear of the king , openly aspired to this high dignity ; but he VOL . II . D saw , saw , or thought he saw , in Coke a 33.
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Lucy Aikin. saw , or thought he saw , in Coke a formidable com- petitor ; and from the moment that this cause of present jealousy was added to his sense of past in- juries , he seems to have omitted no occasion of calling the attention ...
Lucy Aikin. saw , or thought he saw , in Coke a formidable com- petitor ; and from the moment that this cause of present jealousy was added to his sense of past in- juries , he seems to have omitted no occasion of calling the attention ...
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... thought to lie on dying , which was barbarous , ) but to your high court of chancery , which is the court of your absolute power , may not in my opinion pass lightly , nor end only in some formal atonement . But use is to be made ...
... thought to lie on dying , which was barbarous , ) but to your high court of chancery , which is the court of your absolute power , may not in my opinion pass lightly , nor end only in some formal atonement . But use is to be made ...
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Page 290 - ... that the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England; and that the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the king, state, and defence of the realm and of the church of England, and the maintenance and making of laws, and redress of mischiefs and grievances which daily happen within this realm are proper subjects and matter of counsel and debate in parliament...
Page 183 - You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own; What are you when the rose is blown? 39 So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind?
Page 10 - God's sake let me, said the King, shall I, shall I? Then lolled about his neck: then for God's sake give thy lady this kiss for me...
Page 154 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 136 - Paris, in 1625, he had twenty-seven suits of clothes made, the richest that embroidery, lace, silk, velvet, gold, and gems, could contribute; one of which was a white uncut velvet, set all over, both suit and cloak, with diamonds valued at fourscore thousand pounds, besides a great feather, stuck all over with diamonds; as were also his sword, girdle, hat-band, and spurs.
Page 152 - That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed, for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.
Page 7 - I will none of your service and you shall none of my favour. I will, if I can, break your neck, and of that be confident.
Page 221 - My conceit of his person' - it is Ben Jonson speaking of Lord Bacon '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 one of the greatest men that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that Heaven would give him strength; for greatness he could not want.
Page 217 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage: I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Page 182 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?