Westminster Hall, Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench, and Woolsack, Tập 2J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 |
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Trang 240 - Bench; but the attorneys of the Common Pleas often retained him to move for them in the treasury, such matters as were proper there, and what they might have moved themselves. But however agreeable this kind of practice was to a novitiate, it was not worthy the observation it had; for once or twice a week was the utmost calculate of these motions. But the...
Trang 286 - An old dull sot, who told the clock, For many years, at Bridewell -dock, At Westminster, and Hick's-hall, And hiccius doctius play'd in all ; 580 Where, in all governments and times, H...
Trang 274 - Jennings, whose conduct had long been very suspicious ; he had long before dark sent him out to change a guinea for him, and that he had only come back since he (the gentleman) was in the house, saying he could not get change...
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