Terrors of the Law: Being the Portraits of Three Lawyers, "Bloody Jeffreys," "The Bluidy Advocate Mackenzie," the Original Weir of HermistonJ. Lane, 1902 - 129 страници |
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... judge , and Mackenzie was essentially a statesman , one of those who governed Scot- land during a critical and exciting period . Also he was a man of wide culture , he was an accomplished scholar ; Jeffreys and Brax- field were ignorant ...
... judge , and Mackenzie was essentially a statesman , one of those who governed Scot- land during a critical and exciting period . Also he was a man of wide culture , he was an accomplished scholar ; Jeffreys and Brax- field were ignorant ...
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... judge so if you move a few paces along the floor of that same Parlia- ment House from Kneller's Mackenzie to Raeburn's Braxfield ; you will see all the difference there is between cleverness and genius . You have Prefatory 5.
... judge so if you move a few paces along the floor of that same Parlia- ment House from Kneller's Mackenzie to Raeburn's Braxfield ; you will see all the difference there is between cleverness and genius . You have Prefatory 5.
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... judges . On the English or Scots Bench of our own time Jeffreys and Brax- field would have been notable figures , their virtues held in rare esteem , and their vices unknown even to themselves . Both con- temporary reports and ...
... judges . On the English or Scots Bench of our own time Jeffreys and Brax- field would have been notable figures , their virtues held in rare esteem , and their vices unknown even to themselves . Both con- temporary reports and ...
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... judges . And nowadays political trials are practically non - existent . In one sense , true enough , they were not great lawyers . Neither gave his name to any legal classic , and the light which literature sometimes throws on law ...
... judges . And nowadays political trials are practically non - existent . In one sense , true enough , they were not great lawyers . Neither gave his name to any legal classic , and the light which literature sometimes throws on law ...
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... judges whom the inner circle of their own calling unani- mously condemns as bad , though no whisper is ever raised against their honour or in- tegrity . In truth , a contemporary judge who went wrong deliberately , consciously pre ...
... judges whom the inner circle of their own calling unani- mously condemns as bad , though no whisper is ever raised against their honour or in- tegrity . In truth , a contemporary judge who went wrong deliberately , consciously pre ...
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Страница 128 - Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.
Страница 33 - That you shall have, by the grace of God. See that execution be done on Friday next, according to law. You shall have the full benefit of the law ! " Armstrong was hanged, embowelled, beheaded, and quartered accordingly.
Страница 115 - ... a right to be represented ; as for the rabble who have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation...
Страница 125 - I ever heard that had some fun in it without immodesty, was when a butler gave up his place because his lordship's wife was always scolding him. "Lord!" he exclaimed, "ye've little to complain o': ye may be thankfu
Страница 69 - Jerviswood, I own what you say : my thoughts there were as a private man ; but what I say here is by special direction of the privy council ;' and pointing to Sir William Paterson, clerk, added,
Страница 52 - God bless you, sir, for this labour of love which you have shown to the slain body of a servant of Jesus Christ ! ' He, without speaking to any, giving them a bow, removed, not loving to be discovered.