 | 1756 - 596 páginas
...him, among other things, ' That, if the King could have found out an honefter and fitter man for tlxat employment, he would 'not have advanced him to it ; and that he had therefore preferred him, becaufe he knew nofle that deferved it fo well.' It is ufual for perfons promoted to) fuch honourable... | |
 | Matthew Hale - 1763 - 440 páginas
...things, " That if the king could have " found out an honefter and fitter man for that employ" ment, he would not have advanced him to it ; and " that he had therefore preferred him, becaufe he knew " none that deferved it fo well." It is ordinary for perfons fo promoted to be knighted,... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1804 - 398 páginas
...he told him, that " if the king could have found out an honefterand fitter man for that employmer.t, he would not have advanced him to it, and that he had preferred him, becaufe he knew none that deferred it fo well." He continued eleven years in that office... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1805 - 562 páginas
...fingular manner, telling him, among other things, ' That if the king * could have found out an honefler and fitter man for ' that employment, he would not...is ordinary for perfons fo promoted to be knighted ; bufe be defired to. avoid having that honour done him, and therefore, for a confiderable time, declined... | |
 | 1805 - 506 páginas
...Clarendon, on delivering the commission, said to him, " that if the king could have found out an honcster and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it ; but that he had preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." It was usual for persons... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 768 páginas
...esteem of him in a very singular manner, saying, " that if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have...him to 'it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." It is ordinary for persons advanced to that dignity... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 554 páginas
...exprefled his great and juft elreem for him in the following words. ' That if the king could have found out an honefter and fitter man for that employment,...him to it ; and that he had therefore preferred him, becaufe he knew none that deferved it fo well.' Some time after he was knighted. It is an honor ufually... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 páginas
...Clarendon delivered him his commission, he told him that " if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have...him to it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." As he knew it was usual for persons in his present... | |
 | 1813 - 486 páginas
...esteem of him in a very singular manner, saying, " that if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have...him to it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." It is ordinary for persons advanced to that dignity... | |
 | 1814 - 540 páginas
...Clarendon delivened him his commission, he told him that " if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have...him to it ; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." As he knew it was usual for persons in his present... | |
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That if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it ;" and " that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well. 
