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Page 63
Mr . Bedworth was an oratorical tradesman of strong politics , and had made
himself conspicuous by his ill - judged and ostentatious violence on many
occasions . He became obnoxious to the public press , and was libelled and
abused as ...
Mr . Bedworth was an oratorical tradesman of strong politics , and had made
himself conspicuous by his ill - judged and ostentatious violence on many
occasions . He became obnoxious to the public press , and was libelled and
abused as ...
Page 64
I am bound by principle , Mr . Sharpe , I am impelled by the imperious dictates of
honor and conscience , to stand forward on this occasion , and vindicate my
fellow - countrymen from a base thraldom , more cruel than the sway of Nero .
I am bound by principle , Mr . Sharpe , I am impelled by the imperious dictates of
honor and conscience , to stand forward on this occasion , and vindicate my
fellow - countrymen from a base thraldom , more cruel than the sway of Nero .
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But all my friends will expect me to take the more dignified course on such a
serious occasion ; so I have determined upon it , if you please . ” “ Very well , Mr .
Bedworth ; the first thing then is the affidavit . I see you are called a “ gaol - bird , ”
a ...
But all my friends will expect me to take the more dignified course on such a
serious occasion ; so I have determined upon it , if you please . ” “ Very well , Mr .
Bedworth ; the first thing then is the affidavit . I see you are called a “ gaol - bird , ”
a ...
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The casualties and accidents of litigation are so frequent , and sometimes 80
expensive , that they occasion more expenditure than even the whole of the
proceedings that go on in the accustomed course ; and if the cause of action is
not of ...
The casualties and accidents of litigation are so frequent , and sometimes 80
expensive , that they occasion more expenditure than even the whole of the
proceedings that go on in the accustomed course ; and if the cause of action is
not of ...
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The fault , however , was not mine ; for I had cautioned him by letter , as I always
do on such occasions , to bring with him every scrap of paper that he possessed ,
and he told me that he had done so . These accidental “ aggravations of ...
The fault , however , was not mine ; for I had cautioned him by letter , as I always
do on such occasions , to bring with him every scrap of paper that he possessed ,
and he told me that he had done so . These accidental “ aggravations of ...
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Page 398 - You may as well spread out the unsunned heaps Of miser's treasure by an outlaw's den, And tell me it is safe, as bid me hope Danger will wink on opportunity, And let a single helpless maiden pass Uninjured in this wild surrounding
Page 105 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."—MEASURE
Page 274 - OF all witnesses in an honest cause, an intelligent child is the best. Of all witnesses, in any cause, a woman is the worst, unless she happens to be very pretty and engaging, and then she will answer the purpose, whatever it be, most successfully. The counsel examining in chief, ogles her with one eye and the jury with the other, while a marked suavity of
Page 225 - beyond the Latin grammar, and too often less than that, simply to qualify him to be a gentleman, whilst his brothers are tinkers and tailors, and his father a Bow-street runner or sheriff's officer. I have digressed a little, however, from my subject. I only wish to explain how it happens, that in a profession which
Page 224 - men, we have improved our social position, and can now enumerate hundreds among us, who are not less gentlemen by birth, by feeling, and by manners, than we are by act of parliament, there still remains too much of that low business which was once the staple of
Page 225 - now justly esteemed a liberal one, and in which we daily meet with men well qualified to adorn any rank of life, we should yet more frequently fall in with others whose manners would exclude them from our servants' hall, and whose characters would compel us to count
Page 223 - in the higher walks of the profession, have in many instances, established for themselves an acknowledged title to rank with the first circles; though I do not say the most fashionable, for I by no means class these among the most worthy, or the most important ; but though by this accession of better born, and therefore generally better educated
Page 311 - Property to an immense amount depended on the legitimacy of an ancestor whose parents were supposed to have been married in the year 1730. The system of registration, either of birth or marriage, was then scarcely known, or at least very imperfectly
Page 244 - cause in Chancery, because we never could reckon with certainty on the attendance of even one! This man was at the Rolls when we wanted him before the Chancellor, and that man was in the vice-Chancellor's court when wanted at the
Page 96 - have reduced, but not superseded the speculative guesses of the attorney: indeed, in one respect, they have added to the difficulty; because, by success on one issue, and failure on another, a debtor and creditor account of costs is established, the balance of which may, by possibility, be against a plaintiff, though he has been
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| Title | Adventures of an Attorney in Search of Practice |
| Author | Samuel Warren |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | James Cockcroft, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 422 pages |
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