Category: History - British
Were we to recall to life the good Sir Robert Rede who endowed lecturers in this university, we might reasonably hope that he would approve and admire the fruit that in these last years has been borne by his liberality. And then, as in private duty or private interest bound, I...
Were we to recall to life the good Sir Robert Rede who endowed lecturers in this university, we might reasonably hope that he would approve and admire the fruit that in these la...
2. Part 2The importance of certain law schools will be readily conceded, even to one who is in some sort officially bound to believe that law schools may be important. A history of civil...
5. Part 5[48] Commines attributes to Louis XI (_circ. an._ 1479) a project of reducing to uniformity all the customs of France. Francis Bacon more than once, when urging his schemes of l...
3. Part 3The Pole of the Dialogue wished to make the power to entail lands a privilege of the nobility. A project of this kind had been in the air: perhaps in King Henry’s mind. See _Let...
4. Part 4[31] Thomas Starkey, when he was trying to win over Reginald Pole to Henry’s side, wrote thus: ‘Thes thyngs I thynke schal be somewhat in your mynd confermyd by the redyng of Ma...
6. Part 6[61] Smith, _Inaugural Oration_, MS. Baker, XXXVII. 409 (Camb. Univ. Lib.): ‘… At vero nostrates, et Londinenses iurisconsulti, quibuscum disputare, cum ruri sim et extra academ...