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The Judges of England: With Sketches of Their Lives, and Miscellaneous ... - Page 204
by Edward Foss - 1857
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The Works of James Wilson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ..., Volume 2

James Wilson - 1895 - 642 pages
...Yelverton, " your unexpected choice of me to be your mouth or speaker should proceed, I am utterly ignorant. Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice...comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty. But, contrarily, the stature of my body is small, myself not...
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The Theory and Practice of the English Government

Thomas Francis Moran - 1903 - 400 pages
...requirements. In 1597 Speaker Yelverton apologised for his shortcomings in the following way: " Your Speaker ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful. But, contrarily, the stature of my...
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The Mother of Parliaments

Harry Graham - 1910 - 416 pages
...of " Order ! " When Sergeant Yelverton was elected to the Chair in 1597, he declared that a Speaker ought to be "a man big and comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful," 2 and, with the omission of the...
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The Speaker of the House

Michael MacDonagh - 1914 - 478 pages
...annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us all being a great...estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my early industry. Neither from my person nor nature does this choice arise, for he that supplieth this...
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Contributions in History and Political Science, Issue 6

Ohio State University - 1921 - 224 pages
...Anecdotal Hist, of the British Parliament, p. 66. Speaker Yelverton (1597) remarked; "Your Speaker ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken ; his voice great, his carriage majestical, hla. nature haughty, and hts purse plentiful. But contrarily. the stature of my...
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The History of English Parliamentary Privilege

Carl Frederick Wittke - 1921 - 252 pages
...Anecdotal Hist, of the British Parliament, p. 65. Speaker Yelverton (1597) remarked: "Your Speaker ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken ; his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and Ms purse plentiful. But contrarily, the stature of my...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 177

1893 - 640 pages
...estate, save a bare annuity as a younger son. Besides he had a wife and a great many children, and ' the keeping of us all being a great impoverishment...living of us all nothing but my daily ' industry.' Further, he had not the personal endowments necessary for a Speaker. ' Neither from my person or nature...
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L.L.D.

James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 2005 - 1436 pages
...Yelverton, " your unexpected choice of me to be your mouth or speaker should proceed, I am utterly ignorant. Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice...comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty. But, contrarily, the stature of my body is small, myself not...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States

Joseph Story - 2005 - 1408 pages
...I took a wife, by whom I have had many children ; the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing...but my daily industry. Neither from my person nor my nature doth this choice arise ; for he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely,...
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Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United ...

Luther Stearns Cushing - 1856 - 1100 pages
...law, I took a wife by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither from my person or nature doth this choice arise ; for he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely,...
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