Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Knt: Late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, 第 1 卷

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J. Nichols and son, 1811 - 241 頁
 

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第 50 頁 - my son, I will tell you a secret worth your knowing and remembering ; the elevation I have met with in life, particularly this last instance of it, has not been owing to any superior merit or abilities, but to my humility, to my not having set up myself above others, and to an uniform endeavour to pass through life, void of offence towards God and man.
第 118 頁 - The gather'd wisdom of a thousand years,"— if you will allow me to parody a line of Pope. I do not see why the study of the law is called dry and unpleasant ; and I very much suspect that it seems so to those only who would think any study unpleasant, which required a great application of the mind, and exertion of the memory.
第 21 頁 - I sat up close to the wall, I have escaped without the least hurt. When I saw it begin to yield and open, I despaired of my own life and the lives of all within the compass of the roof. Mr. John Lawes is killed, and the attorney in the cause which was trying is killed, and I am afraid some others ; there were many wounded and bruised. It was the most frightful scene I ever beheld. I was just beginning to sum up the evidence, in the cause which was trying, to the jury, and intending to go immediately...
第 137 頁 - Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
第 30 頁 - ... he looked upon the independence and uprightness of the judges, as essential to the impartial administration of justice ; as one of the best securities of the rights and liberties of his subjects; and as most conducive to the honour of the crown.
第 90 頁 - ... how to resent in the most effectual manner. After relating the particulars to Sir Eardley, he asked if he did not think it would be manly to resent it? "Yes," said Sir Eardley, " it would doubtless be manly to resent it, but it would be godlike to forgive it.
第 21 頁 - Between two and three, as we were trying causes, a stack of chimneys blew upon the top of that part of the hall where I was sitting, and beat the roof down upon us, but, as I sat up close to the wall, I have escaped without the least hurt. When I saw it begin to yield and open, I despaired of my own life, and the lives of all within the compass of the roof.
第 18 頁 - The acting junior of the commission is a spectre I started at, but the sustaining the office alone I must and will refuse at all events. I will not give up the peace of my mind to any earthly consideration whatever. Bread and water are nectar and ambrosia when contrasted with the supremacy of a court of justice.
第 6 頁 - a long, lank, lounging boy, whom he distinctly remembered to have been punished by Hunter for idleness.
第 30 頁 - IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That such Salaries of Judges as are now or shall become payable out of the annual Rent or Sum granted for the support of his Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, shall from time to time after the Demise of his Majesty, or any of his Heirs and Successors...

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