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The Causes in the Chancery are heard and Refferr'd to some of the masters and they report the matter againe, and soe from the notion of this being a Court of Equitty and so gives Liberty for persons to make all the allegation and reasons in their Cause, which much delayes ye dispatch, which formerly was of a very good advantage to prevent a huddling up a Cause without allowing tyme for ye partys to produce their evidences or Right, but now by that meanes is soe ill managed that it admitts of heareing, Re-heareing over and over on the Least motion of ye Contrary party, that will pretend to offer new reason matter for delaying judgment, that by this it accrues great advantage to ye Lawyers that have all their fees each motion and may be so Continued many yeares to sometyme ye ruin of the Plaintiffs and deffendants.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

As for the Greeke, wherein I have but small understanding, my father purposed to make me learne it by art; But by new and uncustomed meanes, that is, by way of recreation and exercise.

Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

But by new and uncustomed meanes, that is, by way of recreation and exercise.

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

Some thinck that great age superannuates persons from the vse of physicall meanes, or that at a hundred yeares of age 'tis either a folly or a shame to vse meanes to liue longer, and yet I haue knowne many send to mee for their seuerall troubles at a hundred yeares of age, and this day a poore woeman being a hundred and three yeares and a weeke old sent to mee to giue her some ease of the colick.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

Touching this Ethelred, he was in time of peace a most courteous prince, and one that by all kind of meanes sought to win the hearts of the people: but abroad in the warres he was sharpe and sterne, as he that vnderstood what apperteined to good order, so that he would suffer no offense to escape vnpunished.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

They are starued to death.] with proclamation made, that no man should be so hardie as to receiue them into any house, relieue them with meat, drinke, or any other kind of meanes: wherevpon it fell out in fine that they were starued to death through cold and hunger: howbeit in this their affliction they séemed to reioise, in that they suffered for Gods cause, as they made account.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

And the woman isn't merely the inspiration-aspiration of the poem's trajectory, but has a psychology and will and passions of her own, which are part of the poet's difficulty, as well as her attraction "Yet may I by no meanes my weried mind / Drawe from the Diere".

Love in literature 2011

No surprise, it paints Jews as "wolves" who bite Jesus and "use all meanes they can devise/To beate downe truth, and goe against all right."

Lev Raphael: Was Shakespeare Jewish? Lev Raphael 2010

Mary urged Bedingfield to "by the best meanes ye can p [er] swade hir to be contented to have the sayde Sands removed from hyr."

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

In the instructions that the king commissioned for the regulation of the new household, he specified that the goal of the establishment was to ensure that the local population was "by meanes of good hospitalitie refreshed."

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008