A History of the Inns of Court and Chancery: With Notices of Their Ancient Discipline, Rules, Orders, and Customs, Readings, Moots, Masques, Revels, and Entertainments; Including an Account of the Eminent Men of the Four Learned and Honourable Societies,--Lincoln's Inn, the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, and Gray's Inn, &cR. Bentley, 1848 - 440 pàgines |
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A Guide to the Inns of Court and Chancery: With Notices of Their ..., Pàgina 359 Robert Richard Pearce Visualització completa - 1855 |
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Pàgina 77 - Essay on Studies,' tells us—" Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend" My own view agrees with the poet:— " If lawes by reason framed were, and grounded on the same; If logicke also reason bee, and therefore had this name
Pàgina 251 - sighed for the repose of the country:— " Great offices will have Great talents: and God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordained to fill. To the deliverer of an
Pàgina 367 - Bishop Gardiner. Do I not know you for a favourer Of this new sect ? Ye are not sound. Cromwell. Not sound ? Gar. Not sound, I say. Crom. Would you were half so honest! Men's prayers then would see you, not their fears. Gar. I shall remember this bold language. Crom. Do. Remember your bold life, too.*
Pàgina 95 - counterfayting a letter as from his lady; in generall termes telling him what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gestures, inscribing his apparaile, &c.; and then when he came to practise, making him believe they tooke him to be mad." About this period Shakspeare's
Pàgina 94 - Where never storms arise, Exchange; and he awhile our guests, For stars gaze on our eyes. The compass, love shall hourly sing, And as he goes about the ring, This Masque, as the author intimates, was first produced in the hall of the Inner Temple, which was fitted up with appropriate scenery,
Pàgina 94 - urne and nest. Fear not your ships, Nor any to oppose you, save our lips, But come on shore, Where no joy dies till Love hath gotten more. For swelling waves our panting breasts, Where never storms arise, Exchange; and
Pàgina 30 - prohibited to have counsel of pleaders, or of learned men in the law* for his fee, or of his parents and prochein amy;" expressions which leave no doubt that at this date the apprenticii ad barras were actual practitioners. .The twenty-ninth chapter of the statute of Westminster 3 Edward I. is to the following
Pàgina 28 - could no wight pinche at his writing, And every statute could he plaine by rote. He rode but homely in a medlee cote, Girt with a seint of silk with barres smale— Of his array tell I no longer tale." Chaucer afterwards describes a franklin, or
Pàgina 230 - dressed in a bar gown, whose father had been formerly master of the plea office, in the King's Bench. When this was over, the ladies came down from the gallery, went into the parliament-chamber, and stayed about a quarter of an hour, while the hall was putting in order; then they went into the hall and danced a few
Pàgina 88 - hand; the indorsement, apparently in Lord Burghley's hand-writing, is cramped, and the words are contracted. A work entitled ' Certaine Devises and Shewes presented to her Majestic by the Gentlemen of GrayesInne, at her Highnesse Court in Greenwich, the twenty-eighth Day of Februarie, in the thirtieth Year of her