to be framed. It
is
framed; and the Emperor becomes his robes as if he had been hatched in them.
Thomas, Lord Erskine (1750-1823), youngest son of the tenth Earl of Buchan, a midshipman in the Royal Navy (1764-67), an ensign, and subsequently a lieutenant in the First Foot (1767-75), was called to the Bar in 1778, and became Lord Chancellor in 1806. As an advocate he was unrivalled.
"Even the great luminaries of the law," says Wraxall (Posthumous Memoirs, vol. i. p. 86), "when arrayed in their ermine, bent under his ascendancy, and seemed to be half subdued by his intelligence, or awed by his vehemence, pertinacity, and undaunted character."
With a jury he was particularly successful, though he lived to write the lines quoted by Lord Campbell (
Lives of the Chancellors