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What a vanity is life! how it crumbles under one's touch! I hope you are getting strong, and that this does not weigh too heavily on you.... Ever yours affectionately, J. R. Hope-Scott, Esq., Q.C. to the Very Rev. Dr. Newman. Hotel d'Orient, Hyeres, Var, France: March 6, '70.
Hope-Scott was thought to have become rather imperious in his style of pleading before the Parliamentary committees: I mention this, not to pass over an impression which probably was but incidental. Of an opposite and very beautiful trait see an example in Mr. It is obvious that Mr. Hope-Scott's professional emoluments must have been, as I have already said in general, very great.
It was difficult to get into "the Rough Bounds" as this part of the Highlands was aptly styled by the more favoured districts, and, once in, it was more difficult still to get out. 'Mr. Hope-Scott lost no time in trying to improve matters.
In the case before us it is hardly necessary to say that millions of money were concerned. An exciting scene is remembered in connection with it, the secretary of the Birkenhead Docks fainting away during the proceedings. Mr. Hope-Scott is said to have received a fee of 10,000l.; but a friend, likely to be well informed, thinks this is a fable.
Yrs affly, James R. Hope-Scott. The Lord Henry Kerr. In a speech at Arundel, January 5, 1869, perhaps the last Mr. Hope-Scott made on a public occasion, he remarked that he did not think the wisest thing had been done in remodelling the constituency by simply numbering heads. By depriving Arundel of its member, a large interest had been left unrepresented that is, the Catholic interest.
'Oh, very well; I fall back on my old classics don't you do the same? 'Oh no, replied Mr. Hope-Scott; 'when I go to the country, I find it indispensable to allow my mind to lie entirely fallow. I live in the open air, go on planting, and do no mental work whatever. This was the state of things when he had suddenly to meet a new sorrow, and the last.
Hope-Scott retires from his Profession Edits Abridgment of Lockhart, which he dedicates to Mr. Gladstone Dr. Newman on Sir Walter Scott Visit of Dr. Newman to Abbotsford in 1872 Mr. Hope-Scott's Last Illness His Faith and Resignation His Death Benediction of the Holy Father Requiem Mass for Mr. Hope-Scott at the Jesuit Church, Farm Street Funeral Ceremonies at St.
Hope-Scott, for the splendid tribute which each of them has given to a memory so dear. Funeral Sermon by his Eminence Cardinal Newman, preached at the Requiem Mass for Mr. Hope-Scott, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, May 5, 1873.
This strange torpor, after extreme intellectual exertion, seems to have been observed in Mr. Hope-Scott from a very early stage in his career, during the great railway excitement of 1845. It was probably connected with the shock given to his constitution, in his infancy, by the fever at Florence. There was always a kind of struggle going on in his system.
Leahy, afterwards Archbishop of Cashel, and Mr. Newman in drawing up a report on the organisation of the University, after consulting a certain number of persons, among whom was Mr. Hope. In 1855 Mr. Hope-Scott presented to the new institution one of his splendid gifts a library of books on civil and canon law.
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