The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 14J. Cumberland, 1826 - Anecdotes |
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... RETURNING A FEE . Some years ago , an unsuccessful candidate for the borough of Berwick upon Tweed , preferred a petition to the House of Commons , and retained an eminent counsel with a fee of fifty guineas . Just before the business ...
... RETURNING A FEE . Some years ago , an unsuccessful candidate for the borough of Berwick upon Tweed , preferred a petition to the House of Commons , and retained an eminent counsel with a fee of fifty guineas . Just before the business ...
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... returned , but for want of so able an advocate , the justice of his cause did not prevent his losing it . COVETOUSNESS REQUITED . A counsellor famed for his eloquence and covetous- ness , and who seldom considered the goodness of the ...
... returned , but for want of so able an advocate , the justice of his cause did not prevent his losing it . COVETOUSNESS REQUITED . A counsellor famed for his eloquence and covetous- ness , and who seldom considered the goodness of the ...
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... returning to London . Both of them were conscious that their recovery from the disorders under which they laboured was desperate ; they expressed a mutual wish to enjoy a last interview with each other . For that purpose they were ...
... returning to London . Both of them were conscious that their recovery from the disorders under which they laboured was desperate ; they expressed a mutual wish to enjoy a last interview with each other . For that purpose they were ...
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... returned home almost in desperation . When I opened the door of my study , where Lavater alone could have found a library , the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief , 20 golden guineas wrapped up beside it ...
... returned home almost in desperation . When I opened the door of my study , where Lavater alone could have found a library , the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief , 20 golden guineas wrapped up beside it ...
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... returned . In this shawl she attempted the character of Monimia , but it did not produce the expected effect . She therefore sent it back to the shopkeeper , who refused to receive it , and cited her before the Tribunal of First ...
... returned . In this shawl she attempted the character of Monimia , but it did not produce the expected effect . She therefore sent it back to the shopkeeper , who refused to receive it , and cited her before the Tribunal of First ...
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Page 19 - I came into the House one morning well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swoln and reddish : his...
Page 66 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look! in this place ran Cassius...
Page 112 - But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Page 35 - ... he said, who had an American heart in his bosom who would not have thrown open his fields, his barns, his cellars, the doors of his house, the portals of his breast, to have received with open arms the meanest soldier in that little band of famished patriots? Where is the man? There he stands — but whether the heart of an American beats in his bosom you, gentlemen, are to judge.
Page 173 - Measures, not men ' ! the idle supposition that it is the harness, and not the horses, that draw the chariot along...
Page 163 - the first command and counsel of my youth, always to do what my conscience told me to be my duty, and to leave the consequences to God. I shall carry with me the memory, and I trust the practice, of this...
Page 36 - Washington and liberty, as it rung and echoed through the American ranks, and was reverberated from the hills and shores of the neighboring river — " but hark! what notes of discord are these which disturb the general joy, and silence the acclamations of victory — they are the notes of John Hook, hoarsely bawling through the American camp, beef! beef! beef!
Page 19 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side...
Page 25 - ... universal satisfaction upon the minds of the whole audience, and the man was acquitted. As the judge went down stairs, out of the court, a hideous old woman cried, "God bless your lordship." "What's the matter, good woman?" said the judge. "My Lord," said she, "forty years ago they would have hanged me for a witch, and they could not; and now they would have hanged my poor son.
Page 140 - ... laid against me in this court. You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit.