 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 618 pàgines
...appeal cases ; and Erskine, just about the time when he was called to the bar, was heard emphatically thanking God, that out of his own family, he did not know a lord. It would have been more to the purpose to thank God that he did know an attorney ; but he judged rightly... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 pàgines
...appeal cases ; and Erskine, just about the time when he was called to the bar, was heard emphatically thanking God, that, out of his own family, he did not know a lord. It would have been more to the purpose to thank God that he did know an attorney ; but he judged rightly... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 pàgines
...appeal cases ; and Erskine, just about the time when he was called to the bar, was heard emphatically thanking God, that, out of his own family, he did not know a lord. It would have been more to the purpose to thank God that he did know an attorney ; but he judged rightly... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 pàgines
...successful lawyers. Mansfield and Erskine were, it is true, of noble families ; but the latter used to thank God, that out of his own family he did not know a lord.* The others were, * Mansfield owed nothing to his noble relations, who were poor and uninfluential.... | |
 | 1868 - 856 pàgines
...— how he lived on 'cow-heel and tripe,' dressed so shabbily as to be quite remarkable, and boasted that out of his own family he did not know a lord. Such stories, though probably exaggerated, prove that he endured considerable privations — considering... | |
 | John Timbs - 1873 - 170 pàgines
...appeal cases ; and Erskine, just about the time when he was called to the bar, was heard emphatically thanking God, that, out of his own family, he did not know a lord. It would have been more to the purpose to thank God that he did know an attorney : but he judged rightly... | |
 | Howard Paul, John Timbs, Percy Fitzgerald - 1873 - 456 pàgines
...and Erskine, just about the time when he was called to the bar, ' was heard emphatically thank; ing God, that, out of his own family, he did not know a lord. It would have been more to the purpose to thank God that he did know an attorney : but he judged rightly... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 448 pàgines
...successful lawyers. Mansfield and Erskine were, it is true, of noble family; but the latter used to thank God that out of his own family he did not know a lord.* The others were, for the most part, the sons of attorneys, grocers, clergymen, merchants, and hardworking... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1879 - 416 pàgines
...were on the most economical principle ; there is even a tradition to the effect that his honourable spouse was under the necessity of acting as washerwoman...having nothing else to do, as had been remarked of some body's trees. But a man with the blood of a long line of earls in his veins, and with the consciousness... | |
 | Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1882 - 354 pàgines
...Scotch appeal, cases ; and Erskine. just about the time he was called to the bar, was heard emphatically thanking God that out of his own family he did not know a lord. It would have been more to the purpose to thank God that he did know an attorney ; but he judged rightly... | |
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Mansfield got by his noble connections were a few briefs in Scotch appeal cases ; and Erskine, just about the time when he was called to the bar, was heard emphatically thanking God, that, out of his own family, he did not know a lord. It would have been... 
