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They found the charge of wilful fire-raising not proven against the prisoners, but found three of them guilty of mobbing and rioting, but, in respect of their previous good conduct, recommended them to mercy. The three got off with eighteen months' imprisonment and hard labour. Hope-Scott's to the Scotsman, but this article is probably from his pen.
Many alterations and additions had been made to the Abbotsford of Sir Walter during Mr. Hope-Scott's nineteen years' possession of the place. In the lifetime of the Great Magician, the ground on which he fixed his abode was nearly on a level with the highway running along the south front; and wayfarers could survey the whole domain by looking over the hedge. Mr.
The first meeting of Dr. Newman's friends to hold consultation in the affair was a scene, as I have heard it described, which brought out in a striking manner Mr. Hope-Scott's talents for ruling and advising those in perplexity.
Adams' biography than his own, except so far as it proves the affectionate intimacy which subsisted between them. Hope-Scott's handwriting: 'William Adams, R. I. P. sub 'umbra crucis. J. R. H. S. 1871. The work was published for the Christian Knowledge Society, of the committee of which Mr. Hope at the time was still a member. In connection with the same society Mr. Mr.
The following anecdote will amuse the reader. Hope-Scott a patent of precedence instead of making him a Q.C. On the Chancellor's replying that he had done it because of Mr. Hope-Scott's scruples about the oath, Lord John exclaimed, 'That's more than I would have done. Such illustrations of Mr.
To prevent any adverse impressions which might be given by such random talk, I would remark in passing, that a case like the foregoing is not a question of right or wrong, truth or falsehood, but of a balance of expediency, which it is a counsel's business in each instance to state, though certainly not to overstate. Hope-Scott's resolute conscientiousness in the matter of fees.
It happened on this occasion, as so often in Mr. Hope-Scott's life, that he had persuaded himself that things would be as he wished they should. He never believed that Lady Victoria was dying, though she was in her agony, and had been senseless for ten days; nay, he could hardly be made to think it, even at the last moment; and this time he never recovered the shock.
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.
Hope-Scott's style of pleading is interesting, as conveying the impressions of a very sharp-sighted spectator, and, so to speak, placing before our bodily vision what such refined criticism as that of Mr. Venables has addressed rather to the eye of the mind. To one of an impulsive temperament Mr. Hope-Scott's unconcern and sang- froid is perfectly irritating.
Hope- Scott's Kindness to his Highland Tenants Builds School and Church at Mingarry Church at Glenuig Sells Dorlin to Lord Howard of Glossop Other Scottish Missions aided by Mr. Hope-Scott His Irish Tenantry His Charities at Hyeres. The reader has now been enabled to form an opinion of Mr. Hope-Scott's character and actions in various aspects.
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