"Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a p…"

"If blasted hopes and ruin'd name, And all the venom Love lends Shame — The violent death, and rabble eye, To look upo…"

"It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess th…"

"If you will apply yourself to the King, you may, and there, perhaps, you may find mercy; we must, according to the du…"

"We cannot pardon. We are to say what we take the law to be: if we do not speak our real opinions, we prevaricate with…"

"Mercy is in the King's breast, but is no part of our province: and therefore your application on that head must be el…"

"Where a person interposes his interest and good offices to procure a pardon, it ought to be done gratuitously and not…"

"Where the King has no share, and the King's Serjeant or Attorney-General prosecute not, and the King's name is not so…"

"It is the duty of the Lord Chancellor's place, if he thought it not a good pardon, to inform the King of it."

"The regular way of pardons is by the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General. &c. They are men of the law, and mig…"