 | Charles Edwards - 1855 - 272 страници
...worse than popery ,f speaks of the terror to others of the face and voice of the chief justice : " as if the thunder of the day of judgment broke over their heads;" and shows how Jeffreys, who, by this time, had reached the position of Lord Chancellor, was discovered... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 страници
...offence at, which made him a terror to real offenders, whom also he terrified with his face and voice, at if the thunder of the day of judgment broke over their heads, and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflictions. He loved to insult, and was bold without... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1864 - 358 страници
...he did, or left undone ; and spent, in the Chancery court, what time he thought fit to spare. Mauy times, on days of causes at his house, the company...as if the thunder of the day of judgment broke over Iheir headi : and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflictions. He loved to insult, and... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 432 страници
...Burnet, ii. 389; State Trials, xix. 611; Raine's North Durham, 335. (in Duke Street, Westminster,) " the company have waited five hours in a morning, and...thunder of the day of judgment broke over their heads : and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflictions. He loved to insult, and was bold without... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 436 страници
...Burnct, ii. 389; State Trials, xix. 611; Knine's North Durham, 335. (in Duke Street, Westminster,) " the company have waited five hours in a morning, and...thunder of the day of judgment broke over their heads : and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflictions. He loved to insult, and was bold without... | |
 | James Paterson - 1882 - 546 страници
...displease him, he gave them what he called a lick with the rough side of his tongue ; and he terrified them with his face and voice " as if the thunder of the day of judgment broke over their heads." He had to decide upon a petition against a great city attorney with whom he used to get drunk, and who... | |
 | Roger North, Augustus Jessopp - 1890 - 490 страници
...of judgement broke over their heads : and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflictions. He loved to insult and was bold without check ; but that only when his place was uppermost. To give an instance. A city attorney was petitioned against for some abuse ; and affidavit was made... | |
 | Roger North - 1890 - 456 страници
...of judgement broke over their heads : and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflictions. He loved to insult and was bold without check ; but that only when his place was uppermost. To give an instance. A city attorney was petitioned against for some abuse ; and affidavit was made... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1894 - 476 страници
...and it was commonly a lecture of a quarter of an hour long. And they used to say, ' This is yours ; my turn will be tomorrow.' He seemed to lay nothing...thunder of the day of judgment broke over their heads; and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflictions. He loved to insult, and was bold without... | |
 | Henry Brodribb Irving - 1898 - 408 страници
...and it was commonly a lecture of a quarter of an hour long. And they used to say : ' This is yours ; my turn will be to-morrow.' He seemed to lay nothing...thunder of the day of judgment broke over their heads ; and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflections." If this is a true description of Jeffreys... | |
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Many times, on days of causes at his house, the company have waited five hours in a morning, and, after eleven, he hath come out inflamed, and staring like one distracted. And that visage he put on when he animadverted on such as he took offence at, which... 
