 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...every day done, he w.:s confident he had not given his consent to them, but would have hindered them if he could with his own safety, to which he was always enough iiuluU gent. If he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful ind prodigious... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Law - 1825 - 338 pages
...every day done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them ; but would have hindered them if he could, with his own safety, to which he was always...weighed down with wonderful and prodigious abilities and excellencies in the other scale." The portrait of Lord Chief Justice Vaughan is not so amiable a one.... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1827 - 838 pages
...done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them ; but PART would have hindered them if he could with his own -safety, to which he was always enough indulgent. If 1635. he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1827 - 566 pages
...done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them ; but PART would have hindered them if he could with his own . safety, to which he was always enough indulgent. If 1635. he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 604 pages
...levity of behaviour. In short, it may be said of him, as the noble * historian said of Mr. Selden; " If he had some infirmities with other men, they "...prodigious abilities and " excellences in the other scale." That it is the genuine offspring of Mr. Justice Blackstone's pen, and compiled entirely by himself... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Lawyers - 1830 - 554 pages
...every day done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them, but would have hindered them if he could with his own safety, to which he was always...weighed down with wonderful and prodigious abilities and excellencies in the other scale." * Some traits of Selden's personal character remain to be mentioned.... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...every day done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them, but would have hindered them if he could with his own safety, to which he was always...they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious ahilities and excellencies in the other scale," been much disfigured by clumsy reparations. It has... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...every day done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them, but would have hindered them if he could with his own safety, to which he was always...weighed down with wonderful and prodigious abilities and excellencies in the other scale." To Lord Clarendon's delineation of his character may be added what... | |
 | George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 398 pages
...upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Seldeii's acquaintance from the time he was very young. If he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious excellencies in the other scale *." Poetry also contributed its aid to sound Selden's elegiac praise.... | |
 | George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 396 pages
...himself upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Seldeu's acquaintance from the time he was very young. If he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious excellencies in the other scale *." Poetry also contributed its aid to sound Selden's elegiac praise.... | |
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... reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst times, which his age obliged him to do; and how wicked soever the actions were which were every day done, he was confident he had not given his... 
