Law and Lawyers in LiteratureSoule Bugbee, 1882 - 413 էջ |
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... nature that led me for a moment to suspect that the author is a lawyer , or has sat on a " hung " jury . Especially amusing is the device of the eleven to worry out the one by allowing ten to sleep , and another to argue with him , by ...
... nature that led me for a moment to suspect that the author is a lawyer , or has sat on a " hung " jury . Especially amusing is the device of the eleven to worry out the one by allowing ten to sleep , and another to argue with him , by ...
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... nature lingers at . " The justice of this enactment is gravely discussed by the lawyers in the piece , described as first and second . Cleanthes insists that the law is unjust , because it kills innocents . Number one replies that he ...
... nature lingers at . " The justice of this enactment is gravely discussed by the lawyers in the piece , described as first and second . Cleanthes insists that the law is unjust , because it kills innocents . Number one replies that he ...
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... Nature for form , but go on in his path . " Jonson seems to think it necessary to explain , that in this character he meant no disrespect to our profession ; for in one of the interlocutory passages , the boy , in answer to Master ...
... Nature for form , but go on in his path . " Jonson seems to think it necessary to explain , that in this character he meant no disrespect to our profession ; for in one of the interlocutory passages , the boy , in answer to Master ...
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... nature of whose business is shadowed forth in the first line : - " Take her into your office , sir : she has that in her belly Will dry up your ink , I can tell you . This is the man that is your learned counsel , A fellow that will ...
... nature of whose business is shadowed forth in the first line : - " Take her into your office , sir : she has that in her belly Will dry up your ink , I can tell you . This is the man that is your learned counsel , A fellow that will ...
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... nature which every lawyer will recognize . Pettifog thinks " Your action of the case is in that point too ticklish , " but has no doubt he will overthrow his adversary . " Sans question . The child is none of yours . What of that ? I ...
... nature which every lawyer will recognize . Pettifog thinks " Your action of the case is in that point too ticklish , " but has no doubt he will overthrow his adversary . " Sans question . The child is none of yours . What of that ? I ...
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Էջ 158 - I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
Էջ 163 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here * The Attorney General. they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Էջ 239 - So Tongue, was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Էջ 250 - Here Hickey reclines, a most blunt, pleasant creature, And slander itself must allow him good nature : He cherish'd his friend, and he relish'da bumper ; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper. Perhaps you may ask if the man was a miser ? I answer, no, no, for he always was wiser...
Էջ 105 - On such an afternoon, some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be — as here they are — mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.
Էջ 160 - It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong...
Էջ 112 - The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous make the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
Էջ 297 - Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause. Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful right, Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife removed so rarely well, There take (says Justice), take ye each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on fools like you : 'Twas a fat oyster — Live in peace — Adieu.
Էջ 135 - They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws ; and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge...
Էջ 293 - Christ is the king's Attorney, Who pleads for all without degrees, And he hath angels, but no fees. And when the grand twelve-million jury Of our sins, with direful fury, Against our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads his death, and then we live.