The Life of Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., Ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland: From His Private Correspondence |
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... kind enough to say that you would allow me to dedicate this volume to you . There are two reasons why I wish your name to be connected with the book . Throughout his life my husband was a warm admirer of Lord Beaconsfield , with whom ...
... kind enough to say that you would allow me to dedicate this volume to you . There are two reasons why I wish your name to be connected with the book . Throughout his life my husband was a warm admirer of Lord Beaconsfield , with whom ...
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... kind and considerate to me - as he was always in- variably to other young men . I think I have a kind letter of counsel from him when I was called to the bar . ' he extended to me this great advantage ( cheers ) EARLY DAYS 9.
... kind and considerate to me - as he was always in- variably to other young men . I think I have a kind letter of counsel from him when I was called to the bar . ' he extended to me this great advantage ( cheers ) EARLY DAYS 9.
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... kind en- couragement given them by the late Irish Chancellor , frankly acknowledging how much they have been indebted to the soundness of his advice in directing their future . An opportunity was now to present itself for the young ...
... kind en- couragement given them by the late Irish Chancellor , frankly acknowledging how much they have been indebted to the soundness of his advice in directing their future . An opportunity was now to present itself for the young ...
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... kind of unofficial adviser of the Govern- ment upon matters touching his own country . At this period , ' writes one who was intimate with him during the earlier portion of his parliamentary career , ' the Whigs had no Irish law officer ...
... kind of unofficial adviser of the Govern- ment upon matters touching his own country . At this period , ' writes one who was intimate with him during the earlier portion of his parliamentary career , ' the Whigs had no Irish law officer ...
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... kind of anomalous position ; he was asked for everything , applied to for everything , and blamed for everything , without having the power belonging to his situation . He had the responsibility but not the freedom of action of a ...
... kind of anomalous position ; he was asked for everything , applied to for everything , and blamed for everything , without having the power belonging to his situation . He had the responsibility but not the freedom of action of a ...
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Page 383 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 255 - God ; and in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments I will use the Form in ' the said Book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful
Page 282 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 382 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 231 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 114 - ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
Page 269 - I may assume that the awful Author of our being is the Author of our place in the order of existence, — and that, having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to His, He has in and by that disposition virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us.
Page 187 - ... a man. The matter changeth, the custom, the contracts, the commerce, the dispositions, educations, and tempers of men and societies, change in a long tract of time, and so must their laws in some measure be changed, or they will not be useful for their state and condition; and besides all this, time is the wisest thing under heaven.
Page 254 - I AB do solemnly make the following Declaration: "I assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and to the book of Common Prayer and of the ordering of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 283 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.