Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	writ_n	4,414	5	9.5649	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47658	The characters, or, The manners of the age by Monsieur de la Bruyere ... made English by several hands ; with the characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek, and a prefatory discourse to them, by Monsieur de la Bruyere ; to which is added, a key to his Characters.; Caractères. English	La Bruyère, Jean de, 1645-1696.; Theophrastus. Characters. English.	1699 (1699)	Wing L104; ESTC R10537	259,067	532

trys all tasts all no hands are seen on the Table but his he turns about the Dishes manages the Meat tears it to pieces and if the Guests will dine it must be on his leavings He never spares any of his nasty customs enough to spoyl the stomachs of such as are most hungry You see the Gravy and the Sauce run over his Beard and Chin if he takes part of a Ragou out of a Dish he spills it by the way on other Dishes on the Cloath and you may distinguish his Plate by the tracts he makes to it he eats with a great deal of bustle and noise rouls his eyes and uses the Table as if it were a Manger picks his teeth and continues eating he thinks himself always at home and behaves himself at a Play as if he were in his Bed-chamber when he rides in the Coach it must be always forward he grows pale and swoons if he 's set backward when he travels he gets first to the Inn chuses the best Chamber and Bed for himself His own and other mens Servants run about his occasions baggage and equipage every thing is his he lays his hands on he troubles every one troubles himself for none pities none knows no evils but his own his Spleen and Choler weeps for no body's death and fears no body's but his own and to save himself would willingly consent to the extirpation of mankind * Cliton never had but two things to do in his life to dine at noon and sup at night he seem'd only born for digestion his whole life was but one entertainment he was always talking of the Courses which were serv'd up at his last Meal how many Soupes there were what sort what Roast-meat what dainties and he never forgot the Dishes that made the first Course he remember'd the several Fruits and different kinds of Sweetmeats all the Wines and every sort of Liquor that was drank he was perfectly well verst in the language of the Kitchin and 't would have been difficult to have din'd at a good Table where he was not known he had however a certain Palace which he seldom chang'd and was never expos'd to the dismal inconveniency of making a bad Dinner eating a bad Ragou or drinking indifferent Wine He was in short a person admirable in his way he brought the art of feeding one self well to the highest perfection and 't is to be fear'd we shall never see his fellow who will eat so much and so nicely as h● did he was the judge of good Bits and it had been criminal to like any which he did not approve But he is no more he was to the last gasp born to the Table he eat in his last minutes he eats where ever he is and should he rise again from the Grave 't wou'd be only to eat * Ruffinus begins to turn grey but he 's healthy his Colour and his quick Eye promise him at least twenty years more He is gay jolly familiar and indifferent he laughs heartily aloud● and fears nothing he is content with himself and what belongs to him he 's satisfy'd with his little fortune and calls himself happy Some time since his only Son dy'd who was the hopes of the Family and might have been its honour he resign'd his tears to others he said My Son is dead 't will be the death of his Mother and was comforted He has no passions no friends nor enemies no body troubles him all the world agrees with him every thing suits him he talks to those he never saw before with the same liberty and confidence as to those he calls his old friends he tells them presently all his Stories and Puns He is accosted forsaken he takes no notice on 't but the tale he begun to one person he finishes to another that comes afrer him * N .... is less worn out with age than disease the poor Gentleman is but threescore and eight but alas he has the Gout and the Gravel looks meagre and has all the symptoms of decay he marles his Lands and reckons that he must not dung 'em this fifteen years he plants a young Wood and hopes that in less than twenty years 't will be a good shade for him He builds him a Stone House makes its corners firm with Iron plates and assures you coughing in a weak languishing tone that he shall never see the end on 't He walks into his Laboratory supported by his Valets he shews his friends what he has done● and tells them what he des●gns to do He does not build for his Children for he has none nor for his Heirs they are mean persons and he long since quarrelled with them 'T is for himself only who must expire to morrow * Antagoras has a trivial and popular Phiz 'T is as well known to the Mob as the Gyants at Guild-hall Every morning he runs up and down the Courts of Justice and every evening walks the Streets and Squares as if he had every where a Cause on foot He has been a Pettyfogger these 40 years always nearer the end of his life than his business There has not been a troublesome Suit depending since he put on the Gown but he has had a hand in 't His name becomes the Sollicitors mouth and agrees as well with Plaintiff and Defendant as the substantive with the adjective He 's every body●s Kinsman and every one's Enemy There 's scarce a Family but has some quarrel with him or he with them He is perpetually in Commissions of Bankrupt and Statutes always putting Judgments in Execution and scattering Writs He finds some leisure minutes for a few private visits where he talks of Briefs Tryals and false News You leave him one hour at one end of the Town and find him the next at another If perhaps he has been there before you you 'll hear of him by the lyes he has left behind him His fellow Lawyers meet him frequently at a Judge's Chamber where his affairs must be first expedited or neither they nor the Judge will have any peace with him * Men live a great while opposing some and injuring others and dye at last worn out with age after having caus●d as many evils as they suffer'd * There must I confess be Judgments Seizures Prison and Executions But Justice and Law apart 't is always strange to me when I consider with what violence and fury men act towards one another * We meet with certain wild Animals male and female spread over the Country They are black and tann'd united to the Earth which they are always digging and turning up and down with an unweary'd resolution They have something like an articulate voice when they stand on their feet they discover a manlike face and indeed are men at night they retire into their Burries where they live on black Bread Water and Raysons They spare other men the trouble of sowing labouring and reaping for their maintainance and deserve one would think that