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... cause ; nor did I ever set my neighbours together by the ears , nor lived by the sins of the people . " Well , then , " said St. Peter , come in ! " He became the patron saint himself . " 6 This story puts one in mind of Ben Jonson ...
... cause ; nor did I ever set my neighbours together by the ears , nor lived by the sins of the people . " Well , then , " said St. Peter , come in ! " He became the patron saint himself . " 6 This story puts one in mind of Ben Jonson ...
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... cause , nor yield in a good one . " ROMAN AND DUTCH ADVOCATES - ON THEIR VOCATION . By the Roman laws every advocate was required to swear that he would not undertake a cause which he knew to be unjust , and that he would abandon a ...
... cause , nor yield in a good one . " ROMAN AND DUTCH ADVOCATES - ON THEIR VOCATION . By the Roman laws every advocate was required to swear that he would not undertake a cause which he knew to be unjust , and that he would abandon a ...
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... a man stark naked , with this motto : I am the man who went to law and lost my cause . ' On the reverse is a fellow all in tatters , looking most dismally Iwith this motto : ' I am the man who 6 CURIOSITIES OF LAW AND LAWYERS .
... a man stark naked , with this motto : I am the man who went to law and lost my cause . ' On the reverse is a fellow all in tatters , looking most dismally Iwith this motto : ' I am the man who 6 CURIOSITIES OF LAW AND LAWYERS .
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... cause . ' " This brings to my mind a passage reported of the Scottish king , James I. , who soon after his accession to the English throne would needs be present in court while a notable cause was pleading . Those on the plaintiff's ...
... cause . ' " This brings to my mind a passage reported of the Scottish king , James I. , who soon after his accession to the English throne would needs be present in court while a notable cause was pleading . Those on the plaintiff's ...
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... causes without hearing ; but of another , who was dull , slow , and dilatory , that he heard them without end .-- Camd ... cause delay in Lincoln's Inn , Two different methods tend : His Lordship's judgments ne'er begin , His Honour's ...
... causes without hearing ; but of another , who was dull , slow , and dilatory , that he heard them without end .-- Camd ... cause delay in Lincoln's Inn , Two different methods tend : His Lordship's judgments ne'er begin , His Honour's ...
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Page 124 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? ' Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!
Page 124 - Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.
Page 124 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace! peace!
Page 386 - Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages, that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls ; The seals and maces danc'd before him.
Page 393 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; — but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right...
Page 124 - If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean. not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! — I repeat it, sir, we must fight!! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us. They tell us, sir, that we are weak —...
Page 108 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be -weak and inconclusive.
Page 698 - Sir Francis Bacon was married yesterday to his young wench in Maribone Chapel. He was clad from top to toe in purple, and hath made himself and his wife such store of fine raiments of cloth of silver and gold that it draws deep into her portion.
Page 111 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Page 142 - And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.