 | Maria Edgeworth - 1801 - 244 pages
...sometimes—- but even that did not pay i He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried cost him a power of money—in the end he sold some hundreds a yearofthe family estata —but he was a very learned man... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1810 - 238 pages
...— • but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried cost hiir. 2. power of money — in the end he sold some hundreds a year of the familyestate — but he... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 354 pages
...sometimes ; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it ; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried...matter, except having a great regard for the family ; and I could not help grieving when he sent me to post up notices of the sale of the fee-simple of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 344 pages
...sometimes ; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it ; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried...matter, except having a great regard for the family; and I could not help grieving when he sent me to post up notices of the sale of the fee-simple of the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 450 pages
...sometimes ; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it ; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried...matter, except having a great regard for the family; and I could not help grieving when he sent me to post up notices of the sale of the fee-simple of the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1886 - 320 pages
...sometimes ; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it ; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried...matter, except having a great regard for the family ; and I could not help grieving when he sent me to post up notices of the sale of the fee simple of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1886 - 300 pages
...sometimes ; bat even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it ; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried...matter, except having a great regard for the family ; and I could not help grieving when he sent me to post up notices of the sale of the fee simple of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1886 - 304 pages
...sometimes ; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it ; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried cost him a [rower of money : in the end he sold some hundreds a year of the family estate ; but he was a very... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 pages
...sometimes ; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it ; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried...matter, except having a great regard for the family; and I could not help grieving when he sent me to post up notices of the sale of the fee-simple of the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...sometimes ; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it ; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried...matter, except having a great regard for the family ; and I could not help grieving when he sent me to post up notices of the sale of the fee-simple of... | |
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Out of forty-nine suits which he had, he never lost one but seventeen; the rest he gained with costs, double costs, treble costs sometimes; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it; but how it was I... 
